Source: ROBYN BECK / Getty By Nia Noelle According to Yahoo.com, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has officially ended its decades-old policy requiring travelers to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints. Effective July 7, 2025, this change applies to all passengers, regardless of TSA PreCheck status, marking a significant evolution in U.S. airport … Continued
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It’s all dumbass security theater anyway. There’s no good reason to ever have done it. Same with the vast majority of other shit TSA makes one do.
I worked at an airport back in the late noughties, and as airport staff, TSA was significantly more lenient with screen checks, even though employees have far far far more opportunity to cause damage/terror than some rando traveler.
It only ever happened bc of that one guy with the bomb in his shoe. Even then at the time I was like "is this really necessary, do you expect a rash of shoe bombers??"