Empty Sigg bottle-airport security

GibbsRule_No3

Is it okay to take an empty Sigg waterbottle through airport security and fill it with a bottle of water airside? I will take the stopper off so they can see it is empty. I just want it in my hand luggage, rather than the hold luggage.

stilltheone

Yes, empty bottles are fine.

GibbsRule_No3

Thank you I did not want to risk being told I'd have to throw it away even if it was empty.

lil.smartie

My daughter has Sigg's and we take them through fine, she's only 2 so we have been allowed them with juice/milk in for her as well as empty.

Kate

stoneman

GibbsRule_No3 wrote: »

Thank you I did not want to risk being told I'd have to throw it away even if it was empty.

Why would you have been asked to throw an empty bottle away? The restrictions are only on liquids not air

mad_rich

stoneman wrote: »

Why would you have been asked to throw an empty bottle away? The restrictions are only on liquids not air

For a long time after the liquids ban started, they were not allowing (empty) water containers. I don't know if it was ever official policy, or just made-up on the spot, but it was sufficiently sporadic to stop me from taking my Sigg after two friends were relieved of theirs.

Probably a mixture of overzealous screeners, confusion, simplicity of rules, and refusal to back down.

Soon it calmed down (when it dawned on them there's really no difference between a container that once contained liquid, and one that might in the future contain liquid).

I still don't take mine, just in case I run into a jobsworth.

island2

If you find an over-officious security person, then there's every chance it will be confiscated.

Louisdf

Seems like a scam to force people to buy an overpriced bottle of water for £1.50 instead of taking an empty bottle of water and filling it up in the toilet!

stinky84

Before they brought in the "no liquids" rule there used to be drinking fountains after security at most uk airports and many abroad but now they all seem to have been removed so now you can buy a bottle of water instead for £1.50!
Wouldn't fancy filling a bottle from the toilet sinks though as they often only have warm water and usually say "not fit for drinking"

DavidHayton

stinky84 wrote: »

Before they brought in the "no liquids" rule there used to be drinking fountains after security at most uk airports and many abroad but now they all seem to have been removed so now you can buy a bottle of water instead for £1.50!
Wouldn't fancy filling a bottle from the toilet sinks though as they often only have warm water and usually say "not fit for drinking"

I think that this is atrocious behavoir on the part of the airport operators.:mad::mad: Drinking fountains should be readily available airside, where water bottles can be filled up. But they are not!

Going on a detective-hunt for drinking water does pass the time whilst waiting for a flight to be called: I have explored disabled toilets, baby change cubicles, and prayer rooms. But that does not make it right.

David

Fragger

We always take empty bottles with us and fill by the fountains found near the toilets at Stansted