Airport security confiscated an empty water bottle

[AIRwin]

Departing Johannesburg

I noticed this message on the app:

 

[Haplo]

I have done a few inbound flights to Sydney from Shanghai on China Eastern, no secondary screenings.

 

[HirafuHeartAttack]

Flew back from Nadi earlier this week and they did a liquids check between scanning the boarding pass and boarding the aircraft outside on the way to the aerobridge. Absolutely insane IMO, as there are no places beyond here to fill a water bottle.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Flew back from Nadi earlier this week and they did a liquids check between scanning the boarding pass and boarding the aircraft outside on the way to the aerobridge. Absolutely insane IMO, as there are no places beyond here to fill a water bottle.

Fiji Honeymoon @HirafuHeartAttack ?

 

[HirafuHeartAttack]

Fiji Honeymoon @HirafuHeartAttack ?

Maybe

(Reward flights and a stay plus made it hard to pass up a little getaway)

 

[Scarlett]

It is the only way I can reconcile the current situation. There are also common sayings about conspiracy vs incompetence which would appear to the two viable options.

Forget the conspiracy.
Think about security. Think about which airports/countries it is being conducted in. Think about the level of trust you may have in the screening in those places it is being conducted. Why may the Australian Govt mandate something extra and what could they reasonably negotiate with those countries? Now think of international diplomacy and how countries rarely directly criticise and you may understand why the Aus Govt doesn’t fully explain the reason for the additional screening.
I’d also suggest the practice was ‘threat informed’ when it was enacted.

Or it could be protecting commercial interests… but only with a minor subset of incoming pax.

 

[LbyFUSA]

Personally, i do not think there is anything wrong in having a secondary check at the boarding gate for LAGs. Afterall, inconvenience is the cost of enhanced security which we are all willing to pay. This is even more true for the current situation wherein terror has struck Bondi Beach.
Regarding the confiscation of the empty bottles, why would these need to carried in flight for any reason? If these are glass bottles then these can be a security risk and these can be broken and used as weapon for threatening passenger security. Plastic ones which were harmless could have been spared.

 

[Forg]

It’s all a coordinated scam by security folk to claim all those 10c amounts back!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Personally, i do not think there is anything wrong in having a secondary check at the boarding gate for LAGs. Afterall, inconvenience is the cost of enhanced security which we are all willing to pay. This is even more true for the current situation wherein terror has struck Bondi Beach.
Regarding the confiscation of the empty bottles, why would these need to carried in flight for any reason? If these are glass bottles then these can be a security risk and these can be broken and used as weapon for threatening passenger security. Plastic ones which were harmless could have been spared.

It’s not the glass bottle, it’s the fear an explosive liquid could be in the containers.

But the rule doesn’t apply from all airports, only select ones where I guess they don’t trust security.

 

[Forg]

It’s not the glass bottle, it’s the fear an explosive liquid could be in the containers.

But the rule doesn’t apply from all airports, only select ones where I guess they don’t trust security.

Maybe it’s also related to which airports (or countries) agreed to do it? And they figure that the 95+% coverage of travelers is enough “security theatre”?

 

[Beano]

So what happens to your duty free, purchased in the "sterile" area?

 

[Forg]

So what happens to your duty free, purchased in the "sterile" area?

I’ve often wondered about this! Destruction seems so wasteful. I’d like to believe it gets shared equally around the security staff, they’re on a pretty low-level wage and it’d be nice to think they get the occasional perk.

 

[anat0l]

So what happens to your duty free, purchased in the "sterile" area?

In SIN, I thought the duty free shop holds your purchases and has them directly delivered to the gate in secure bags. I think it's usually given to you after you are boarded, so you can carry it on.

They may not do this any more.

In any case, I don't think the agents that are screening for LAGs at the gate don't care about your purchases and will unconditionally seize them off you. Whether they drink it or sell it off later I have no idea.

 

[Beano]

Actually I thought that the duty free was in sealed bags, not that I bought any going to Australia. Once FRA to EDI I bought duty free, no sealed bags, no secondary test, no problem!
*screening

 

[Forg]

Actually I thought that the duty free was in sealed bags, not that I bought any going to Australia. Once FRA to EDI I bought duty free, no sealed bags, no secondary test, no problem!
*screening

Dan Murphys having a sale which made it cheaper than airside Hong Kong prices saved my backside from secondary booze stealing.
Probably didn’t even visit Dan and buy that Stuff from him!

 

[serfty]

In SIN, I thought the duty free shop holds your purchases and has them directly delivered to the gate in secure bags. I think it's usually given to you after you are boarded, so you can carry it on.

They may not do this any more.

In any case, I don't think the agents that are screening for LAGs at the gate don't care about your purchases and will unconditionally seize them off you. Whether they drink it or sell it off later I have no idea.

This still occurs at Changi.