Originally Posted by
transitguy1
At some airports it is not easy to find a water fountain. Looks like they've been deliberately removed or made not so visible in order to make people buy something which should be free.
Those stores selling water must be loving the liquids ban. They make huge money from passengers needing drinking water. Not everyone can go a few hours without water.
No issues taking empty water bottle through LIS, YYZ, BRU so far.
I've always wondered which of these is greater:
1- The increase in sales of bottled water, Coke, and other drinks that passengers are no longer allowed to bring from home.
2- The decrease in overall sales of airside vendors now that airside is only for ticketed passengers--and even ticketed passengers, upon arrival, are likely to make a beeline for the airside exit to meet their family, skipping any vendors.
(Question: Are there any airports in the world today where you can still go airside with no boarding pass and meet people at the gate? Better yet...are there any airports with zero security theater?)
Whenever I fly, I bring an empty plastic bicycle-cage-mount water bottle with me; it holds something like 24 oz. It's been on its fair share of trail bike rides, so it's pretty ratty and scratched up, but it works. Translation: no TS"O" will ever want to appropriate it for personal use. And yeah...if a TS"O" ever wanted by reusable water bottle, I'd insist on keeping the lid.