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 ...

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

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 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.

The Department of Homeland Security announced a new TSA policy that allows passengers to keep their shoes on while passing through security screening, potentially signaling the upcoming end of other ...

The days of taking your shoes off during security screenings at U.S. airports is reportedly coming to a close.

Getting through security lines at the airport soon might have one fewer step, with the Transportation Security Administration reportedly planning to end its policy requiring travelers to take off ...

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.

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 ...