TSA began its policy of requiring airline passengers to take shoes off during security screenings in 2006, five years after Richard Reid, a passenger aboard an American Airlines flight from Paris to ...

It may soon be time to leave your shoes on at the airport. After nearly two decades of making travelers remove footwear at security checkpoints, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ...

The policy change is nationwide and goes into effect immediately, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.

Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, speaks at Ronald Reagan Airport to announce the termination of the shoe removal ...

The TSA appears ready to end a rule that requires airline travelers to remove their shoes for security screenings thanks to the advancement of new technology. The requirement has been in place since ...

Now that the TSA is doing away with its shoes-removal policy at security checkpoints, might a rule change regarding liquid ...

The shoe removal process was implemented in 2006 "in response to an attempt by an airline passenger to conceal a bomb in his shoe," per USA TODAY.

TSA began its policy of requiring airline passengers to take shoes off during security screenings in 2006, five years after a ...

Meanwhile, airport security experts would like to know with more certainty what led the TSA to determine that removing shoes ...

With an end to removing your shoes at the airport, an irritant of modern life is done with. That doesn’t happen very often.

TSA has ended the ... still be required to take off their shoes for security, Noem said. For instance, passengers that do not have a government-required REAL ID to fly will not explicitly be excluded ...

Michigan travelers can now keep their shoes on at TSA security checkpoints in airports. The Department of Homeland Security announced the change July 8, ending the no-shoe policy.