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Old Jul 18, 2017 | 12:44 pm
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Originally Posted by K2BF
Two recent experiences here:

1. Leaving HKG the other day, everyone was being stopped/searched on the jetway. They confiscated my bottle of water that I had purchased moments earlier in the shop nearby. Who knows? Maybe it ended back in the same refrigerator for the next person to buy.
I asked why the last time I went through and was told that the terminal has incoming flights from other airports and connecting passengers haven't cleared security here, so it is done to satisfy US security requirements.

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