Tip for anyone traveling to Australia via Dubai: do not buy a bottle of water to drink on the plane. Drink it before you board, otherwise it will get confiscated at the gate.
And yeah, this just happened to me. And yeah, I’m kinda annoyed by this. 🙁
And yet, I’m seeing people who’ve cleared screening drinking water from bottles. So the decision to confiscate is up to the individual screener? Or does the water bottle need to have been opened? How arbitrary.