You no longer have to remove your shoes from the safety of the airport, TSA announces
"We expect this change to considerably reduce passengers' waiting times to our TSA control points," said Kristi Noem.
For many travelers, one of the greatest advantages of TSA Precheck May keep your shoes through the safety line. No jump on a foot while counting your sneakers, or being tasted by walking in socks or (let's dare to say!) On barefoot on the airport floor. But now, All domestic travelers in the United States can keep their shoes at the TSA security checkpoints The Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) announced on Thursday.
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As The New York Times Before the official announcement, the shoe policy was implemented by the TSA (transportation Security Administration) in 2006, "almost five years after a terrorist has tried to explode an explosive in its shoe on an American Airlines from Paris to Miami", referring to the so-called "shoe bomber" Richard Reid .
Under the policy of almost two decades, travelers under 12 and more than 75 were exempt from the rule, as well as those who paid $ 80 to register for the TSA Precheck.
But interior security secretary Kristi Noem announced that passengers traveling through domestic security checks will no longer have to remove their shoes.
"The end of the" shoes "policy is the last effort that DHS implements to modernize and improve the experience of travelers in airports in our country," said Noem in a press release . "We expect this change to considerably reduce passenger waiting times to our TSA control points, leading to a more pleasant and more efficient passenger experience."
"As always, security remains our absolute priority. Thanks to our advanced technological progress and our multilayer security approach, we are convinced that we can implement this change while maintaining the highest security standards," she added, without providing additional details on security progress.
Although Noem has told the media that the policy will come into force immediately, it is deployed in American airports in phases, reports Forbes .
It has already been implemented at New York Guardia Airport and at Los Angeles International Airport, and will soon have an effect in Baltimore / Washington, Fort Lauderdale, Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky, Portland, Philadelphia and international airports of the Piedmont Triad in North Carolina.
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THE New York Post Previously, there would be warnings that disqualify travelers to keep their shoes on: "Passengers must be in possession of a real identity document approved and now required and must not require special screening."
People who need special screening may include those on a Flight without flight (or who has a very similar name to someone on a list), those reserved Last minute or one -way tickets, those who paid in cash, or those who travel to a country that the State Department considers "at high risk".
