The TSA no longer requires you to bare your past-due pedicures for all the world to see. Shoe removal is not needed to pass through airport security. Shoes, for now, get to remain on. Effective ...

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that most travelers will no longer have to remove their shoes at TSA checkpoints.

Shoe-removal is history — what about 3-1-1? The TSA announced the end to the nearly 19-year-old shoes-off policy for passengers passing through its checkpoints, and leaders at the U.S ...

TSA will no longer be waiting for the other shoe to drop as they end almost 20 years of shoe-removal protocols at airport security nationwide, including Aspen/Pitkin County Airport. Shoe removal was ...

According to Airlines for America’s Air Travelers in America survey, an estimated 46 percent of adults 55 and older flew last year. At a conference hosted by The Hill later in J ...

The change takes effect immediately, though a "multi-layered" security screening will remain, say US officials.

Napolitano said she expected the shoe removal policy would be phased out “in the months and years ahead” as a result of new screening technology. A decade later, Axios reported that Napolitano’s ...

TSA has already relaxed the shoe-removal policy at select airports. Secretary Noem said the liquid rule is under review. New CT scanner technology is increasingly available, but not yet nationwide.

John Pistole, then head of the TSA, cited survey data indicating that “shoe removal was second only to the high price of tickets in passenger complaints.” He nevertheless defended the policy.