Originally Posted by
mike_plat
Apparently their general advice is no longer true when leaving Manila, as I found out on 4/19. The MNL airport security does not allow liquids. The policy is pretty unclear. I took my nasal mist and contact lens solution, and they didn't say a word. I probably could have taken the rest of the stuff that I hastily threw in my checked luggage at the last minute. I don't know how uniform the enforcement is though. This is not a NWA policy, but a MNL airport policy (that apparently didn't exist when I was there 2 months ago).
I might point out that the "incident" this thread is about happened in AMS over 6 months ago. If I had read it a several weeks earlier than today, I would have tried to bring an empty bottle thru AMS onto NW to BOS, but alas I have no plans to fly thru AMS in the near future. My waitlist for CO BOS-EWR-MXP in BusinessFirst for my next trip just came thru and the timing works out much better for me. (Leave 4 hours earlier; arrive 4 hours earlier.)