Originally Posted by
SQTraveller
Slightly OT, when I travelled through MNL a couple of years back they confiscated my empty water plastic bottle (which I fill up before before I get on a plane). I asked why and they just said not allowed. First time that has happened to me anywhere.
CGK had a second layer of security after the boarding gate (on the jetbridge approach) last time we departed there for HKG, and they tried to make my wife throw away the bottle of water she had just bought (post security). We argued a bit because she was feeling sick and needed the water, and they eventually relented and told her to just “hide it in her bag”. The theatre gets a bit tiring at times...