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Old Nov 27, 2017, 2:00 pm
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Originally Posted by exerda
They do the same at HKG. If you're flying UA, they do a bag check at the gate. Really annoying that they enforce a "liquids ban" on those flights for stuff which is airside.

TPE is relatively new IIRC; one of my employees goes to TPE 1-2x a year and brought stuff back from airport duty free back in February.
For HKG, it's for all US-bound flights, not just UA flights. I had a bottled water purchased at the airport taken away from me on a CX flight.
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