Originally Posted by
livetutravel
I am now in the Pier lounge and surprised to find out the small Bonaqua bottles are now gone. I used to smuggle one or two of those to the plane when I travel on non-Aus/USA-bound flights. Just too shy to annoy the FAs when I need some water up in the air. Water is now served at the lounge in giant bottles to pour out from. Very smart to copy from what BA does for cost-saving in the name of waste-reduction.
No! It is to prevent smugglers from littering empties in the plane so less garbage to remove later.