Originally Posted by
Letitride3c
For flights departing to the US, there's secondary screening for carryon luggage & passport checks at the boarding gates ... Yes, that bottled juice, sports drink or soda that you just brought inside the secured airside terminal's shops cannot be taken onto the plane
Why is that? I've flown back to the US from overseas (MUC and SYD) in the past few months, both of which have "secondary" screening at the US departure gates, and they didn't care a bit about liquids bought airside.