The Transportation Security Administration is set to announce that it will no longer require passengers to remove their shoes during security checks at some US airports, according to media reports.
CBS News, citing sources reported the change in TSA policy appears to be a phased approach with Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Fort Lauderdale International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport among the first where the no-shoe requirement will expire.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is due to hold a Press conference where she is expected to announce the policy change. TSA began making passengers remove their shoes to screen for explosives in August 2006.
The policy was implemented nearly five years after the 9/11 attacks and when Richard Reid, who is known as the ‘shoe bomber’, used matches in an attempt to ignite explosive devices hidden in his shoes on a flight from Paris to Miami.
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