Apparently, according to multiple sources citing a TSA internal memo, U.S. airline travelers no longer need to remove their shoes when going through the security screening process. [There’s nothing on TSA website]
Perhaps the USA will soon catch up to The Netherlands, where everything including your personage are scanned as you pass through the newer tech systems/gateways and you do not need to take off anything, nor remove anything from carry on luggage. It makes travel much faster.
YAHOO – In a sweeping update to airport security procedures, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has made a significant policy change: all travelers, regardless of PreCheck status, will now be allowed to keep their shoes on during security screening.
This marks the most significant revision to TSA’s screening process in more than two decades and effectively ends one of the most notorious post-9/11 requirements for air travel in the United States.
[…] Starting Monday, July 7, TSA officers nationwide will begin implementing the updated protocol. The policy applies to all U.S. airports and all passengers, whether they are enrolled in TSA PreCheck or not. The only known exception at this time is for individuals who are unable to present a REAL ID-compliant form of identification, a federal standard that was fully enforced back in May 2025. (read more)
Hail Amerika!
TDS victims will insist on removing their shoes to slow down the line and to send an unspoken message to other libtards.
“Excuse me, but your mask is showing…”
Just run them over
Defund and eliminate TSA. Make security screening the responsibility of the Airlines.
9/11 was an inside job to get the Patriot Act passed.
Agree with disband and trash TSA … however … the airlines and port authorities running the Airports WILL hire a privatized version of TSA to avoid the major legal liabilities of a bad actor causing a tragedy, which will be another FEE on air travel.
It is a sad testament to devolution of society … When hijacking of airliners became a hobby and crazier evil doers started causing tragedies … “just because” …. normal travelers had to pay the price of security checks for safety as well as legal liability reasons.
The TSA fees charged on every ticket would go away. Whatever the airlines charge will be mitigated by having to compete with other airlines on price while still maintaining good security because planes blowing up is bad for business.
TSA is mostly security theatre put on by entitled DEI hires.
I will add if the airline is in charge it will run much smoother because they benefit from a well run system.
The current paradigm has no responsibility to make work, just make it look like safe so people feel safe.
I don’t agree whatsoever with your closing sentence.
TSA is ‘security theater’ – a dog-and-pony show.
When it was first started, there were a lot of American citizens who become TSA screeners – because they thought it was the right thing to do.
Many – perhaps most – of those people are long gone.
<Airports WILL hire a privatized version of TSA to avoid the major legal liabilities…>
Ever since the TSA hinted at this change last week…
I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop 🙂
Every time I open a new OTC bottle of medication, I am reminded of the one who put something in the Tylenol bottle all those years ago. Don’t remember what he did but it has affected our lives from that time forward. I keep pliers, scissors and ice pick in my kitchen drawer to try to get things open.
You’re dating yourself if you can admit to remembering when the only thing between you and an aspirin tablet was a wad of cotton under the screw top on a glass bottle.
I remember that! Almost everyone threw away there Tylenol or waited for the lot #s to be called (I was young). I wonder if it was an inside job or insider trading. 🤔
Thank you for your comment!
We already had private security screening managed by the airlines prior to 9/11 and it was a joke quite frankly. Reforming TSA is a better option.
Or leave it to the passengers…
“ sir, are you carrying a weapon?
Yes, a Glock 19
Thank you, the departure lounge is straight ahead”
9/11 was a ploy to transfer energy wealth. the security state sponsored the op because it could make enrichment in two key elements:
political and psychological advantages.
financial payOUTS.
yes, the secret police spy state did in fact manufacture a crisis and SOLD it.
with two conditions: yes, we will make YOU very wealthy. But, your political apparatus must now respect what we have done with special letters (get out of jails cards for everyone…EVERYONE)
and so, we can all do it again, over
and
over
and
over
again.
until something happens that we could not anticipate.
the people actually decided principle and moral spinal columns was more desirable than the wicked money rackets of war.
stage 4, revolution: transfer of power.
comes from the most unlikely and unanticipated reasons-causes.
God Bless America
When the Patriot Act was under discussion, I and others argued that the government should turn airport security over to a private contractor, the same way that a private firm secured the nation’s nuclear reactors.
Clearly, the last thing the nation needed at a time of threat like none we had ever faced, was another federal bureaucracy.
This alone could really blow a hole in the Pre-Check Authorization for DOLLARS scam run by the TSA.
Agree. I will not be renewing my Pre-Check pass. Even now, so many bought one that it is sometimes quicker through the regular lane.
Is that lower Left passenger Timmy Walz at MSP?
I dunno, but if it’ll prevent attractive women in short blue dresses from contorting to get their sandals off …
…. I’m agin’ it
Lmao! Love your sense of humor, Nim. I will say I always felt bad for the pata sucias who had to walk through TSA barefoot…..
“Pata sucia” is a term that originated in Miami and is used to describe someone, typically a woman, who removes their shoes and walks barefoot in public, especially after leaving a club or during social events. The term translates to “dirty feet” in Spanish, but it has taken on a slang meaning related to people who take off their shoes and walk barefoot in public places, such as nightclubs, weddings, or on the street.
Had to look that one up!
I have heard the similar term “grocery store feet” from friends in the deep south.
We used to do that. Linoleum was cool, as was mud. Did lose a few tennis shoes to the streets when the tar got really hot & sticky…
thx, Tiff
I would have had to look up pata sucia but Bubby saved me the effort
The Barefoot Contessa……
Yep, either Timpon or his doppelganger.
Yep, that’s the Timponzee.
Timpax.
So now after DOJ/FBI’s latest betrayal, we don’t have to worry about the other shoe dropping.
LOL
Careful! You are moving in on WORDMAN’s corner! LOL
(well done)
<Careful! You are moving in on WORDMAN’s corner!>
Yes…See the tenth comment 🙂
I traveled by air recently. Even with my piece of paper from the hospital proving I had a “medical device” installed, TSA still pulled me over for a thorough pat down. Since I was going on a happy trip to see family, I just smiled and kept showing my piece of paper, and didn’t allow them to upset me. Interestingly, you don’t even need to show a boarding pass! You insert your compliant ID into a scanner and they know everything about you and take a picture, or you don’t get to fly. On the return trip, I didn’t get pulled over to be groped because they said they already had it in the computer system. It’s so eery. I haven’t flown in 5 years because I so hate the TSA. I so hate the snoopy government.
Sundance posted about all the new measures a few weeks ago. Had the exact same experience.
I drive whenever I travel. No more flying for me as I’m in charge of my safe arrival.
Me too. If I can’t drive there, I don’t go
I haven’t been on a plane in 40 years, so all of this TSA nonsense is foreign to me. There’s nowhere I want to go that I can’t drive.
Last time we flew it was a nightmare. I knew why we were chosen, as tokens. I had to empty my purse. What a nightmare, the top of my Benadryl came off in transit to the airport inside my bag. They looked at me strangely but let us go. lol, what a waste of time. Haven’t flown since🤣🤣🤣.
They didn’t take my picture because I found out on this site that it was not mandated. I have the realID and the TSA precheck, but it was fun to see the look on their faces when I said I didn’t want the photo.
We fly to EU a few times a year. Passport control for EU citizens has no screening – you only have scan your face to open the Entry gate. TSA has been doing this, first w Global Entry, now w Real ID. Flew AMR last week, you tell the TSA agent ‘I am Opting out’. They then check your DL or Passport – the reason why you have that form of ID.
So like the Meme where your bank ATM will not allow you to withdraw money from your account, due to a Critical post about the Government, Palantir will make stitch all this Bio ID together and make this Concept real easy.
Want to say the reason for GWB TSA was ‘not to profile US Citizens’ – like Israel was doing to zero in on terrorist suspects – no the USA where everyone was equal, grannies, little kids, etc. – wasted TRILLIONS on$$ to take your pocket knives, water bottles, toothpaste, perfume bottles, soft cheese sandwiches….
With this ‘keep your shoes on development’, ask yourself, how will they now know Who is a bombing or terrorist flight risk? Smile for the camera please…
Did TSA ever catch any terrorists?
Living in Hawaii, flying is second nature. I have always declined the photo and they never say anything. Typically use my passport as my ID. I once had the dreaded “SSSSS” on my boarding pass. No idea why.
They seem more consistent these days, but it’s still “laptops in or laptops out”. “Bags in bins or directly on belt”?
When we were taking care of our fathers, having the wheel chair was the key to getting through fast and easy.
In Hawaii you also have to go through USDA screening (all bags) when leaving. They used to be co-located with TSA for carry-on but for the past couple years everything has to go through the scanner prior to checking in.
Same thing when my dad was still alive.
He had his medical card but NOPE your knee is showing metal.
This is one of the big reasons why I haven’t flown since 2008, except for a pair of military Space-A flights overseas and back. I’d rather drive 3 days (and enjoy the scenery) than fight TSA ever again. Shoes on or off, whatever.
Still security theater without taking the shoes off.
These TSA hires plenty of which were DEI hires at that still could not find prohibited items if it was staring them in the face.
Never mind that new AI tools will simply allow privileged individuals to be invisible to the system anyway.
Yep, still a farce.
All items brought through security are possibly ‘prohibited’.
It’s up to the discretion of the 18 y/o kid as I found out traveling through Chicago.
I think the systems that SD described in The Netherlands are deployed elsewhere in Europe.
IIRC in March, I went through a similar screening (removal of no items either bodily or in carry-on luggage) or in luggage at Security screening the Frankfurt Airport.
Frankfurt has two screenings. One at the front after passport/boarding check and one at every international gate that exits the EU region.
Terminal Zed….add up to 30 more minutes to make that connection after passport control. We like FRA, but spend the night at the FRA Hilton – it is on top of the DB mainline train terminal. We go to either Heidelberg or Köln for bier & schnitzel…. Much more reliable than All Day waste of time trying that at Heathrow. As such we prefer Lufthansa/United over AMR/British Air for flights into Europe. AMR were shortsighted to close their ZRH Hub.
Did they get upgraded scanners? The shoe rule was instituted because the scanners could not detect anomalies close to the floor. Someone could easily hide something in the soles of the shoes. Therefore shoes were taken off an x-rayed.
I always thought it was because of the antics of Richard Reid, the failure-at-life “Shoe Bomber.”
IT WAS
I love how these million dollar scanners can’t tell if it’s a weapon or a wadded-up Kleenex in the pocket of my jeans.
Oh well, at least some ex-government officials made some money.
Who has given you permission to carry wadded-up Keenex, Citizen?
Be a shame to have a dryer sheet hidden up in them britches! They would be walking ’em to that little room for questioning! 😉
Is that a wadded-up Kleenex or are you just glad to see me?
I love how the border has been wide open to all comers for many years, yet they can’t accept a regular ID card at the airport.
Last time I flew, TSA escorted dozens of illegals past all the Americans waiting in line to get groped by more TSA. The line-cutters are not a security threat, I guess.
yeah, I had to take my wadded up tissue out of my pants pocket and carry it in my hand through the scanner. Ridiculous.
They think that is good security, but it’snot.
What about not allowing foreign workers born in hostile counties work for TSA or airports in general as who knows what they could plant inside a food tray carrier that gets loaded onto a plane.
What are the success rates of TSA agents catching dummy guns/explosives/knives during live random tests by auditors? 20%? 25%?
Or targeting passengers who most likely fit profiles of hijackers/terrorists….and subject them to extra scrutiny. (e.g. leaving alone 87 year old wheel-chair bound grandma Martha Olsen from Fergus Falls, MN and go after any dude under age 70 named “Abdulrahman” ).
Or enacting new law to prevent disruptive outbursts on planes (or in departure lounges) “If you act up, NO MORE FLYING for LIFE”. Watch the number of belligerent altercations on flights or in departure lounges drop by 99% in a day.
Also enact $1,000,000 reward and free flights for life (for person and family) if you subdue a terrorist in flight….. with the terrorist dead or alive when the cops enter the plane.
We never “needed” to remove our shoes in the first place.
Also this is just another means to harass non Real ID holders (another security measure we have never needed) and treat them like second class citizens.
Exactly. Was reading about it on refuserealid.org
What about the shoe bomber around 2001.
isn’t that why we take off our shoes?
That is the justification.
I maintain my position regarding the necessity of removing footwear.
Remember the underwear bomber? He had the first known case of E.D.—Explosion Dysfunction.
The “real” IDs will soon go by the wayside, just as they no longer need to check boarding passes at the checkpoint, as soon as the biometric face scanners confirm who’s who. From that point on, it will be facial recognition technology in lieu of ID.
I think it more likely Real ID will be melded into the FRT or vice versa.
Real ID was delayed multiple times in the near quarter century between legislation and enforcement. I suspect much of that delay was due to reaching a desired level of technology with which it could be integrated.
The Fourth Branch does not invest 25 years into a project just for the heck of it.
Yes, but once they match up the biometric tech to the person, the “real” ID card will no longer be necessary. The tech itself will sort out who’s who.
>It makes travel much faster.
Last I checked the planes still left the airport gate at the same time and they did not fly any faster just because “people kept their shoes on”.
Maybe “convenient” is the proper word.
But then one can always ask if trivial inconveniences are not thrown up to introduce more structural changes that were otherwise very hard to implement without bugging the heck out of people (things like Iris scans, wide spread facial recognition etc.)
More “convenient” for sure.
𝐓𝐒𝐀 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬
The Transportation Security Administration TSA will soon allow all travelers to keep their shoes on during airport screening, regardless of their PreCheck status. This policy change, set to take effect nationwide on July 7, 2025.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/tsa-ends-shoe-removal-requirement-for-all-travelers/ar-AA1I8ig8
Trying to visit children in Long Island. Living in central Texas, the drive would be very long & arduous. Believe it was Dubya that gave us another Fed agency that votes 99% democrat. Oh, we’re driving.
and not one mention of belts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, they have to keep you down.
Can you image what would happen if the TSA gave away anymore of their authority?
So those of us who produce “real” IDs (as opposed to plain old fashioned IDs?) now have the “privilege” of keeping our shoes on our feet?
Why does this remind me of masking, and those receiving the poison death shots have the privilege to remove their masks?
Real ID is required now
No it is not!
It’s actually not required but you do have to go through additional TSA “Screening”. I was surprised to find out Texas, Georgia, Florida and a couple other red states do require the Real ID. Very frightening when you read the language of the Federal ID and it’s open ended language about future “emergencies”
Here in Florida, our driver licenses are Real ID and have been for some time. Licenses are good for eight years. If you don’t already have the Real ID at renewal time, you will have to physically appear at DMV to get it. Once you have it, you can renew by mail the next time it expires like we used to do. If you’re not a licensed driver, you’ll still need to carry a Real ID for non-drivers. Just sayin’.
You don’t need the Real ID to fly, they accept a passport or passport card.
Real ID- Don’t Comply
https://www.cchfreedom.org/national-id/
Passports require the same documentation proof as RealID. It’s just a federal vs. a state ID documentation choice.
But you do need a Real ID to purchase guns/ammo in Mexifornia. 😡
Military ID works for me.
TSA = Taking Scissors Away
TSA = “Touching Someone’s ***”
TSA = Twisted Sick Authority
TSA = To Subdue Abruptly
TSA = Thwart Silence Abash
TSA = Thugs Standing Around
Or… Thousands Standing Around.
I still won’t fly again until they let me carry a pistol.
Just sayin ☠️
Great!! Now I can wear my sox until they can stand on their own! Like before the shoe bomber rule. 😀
Is the TSA still letting illegals through the ‘security’ check without an ID?
Asking for a friend.
Reminder that Afghan refugees and their families qualify for expedited Real ID approval.
Which country harbored the 9/11 hijackers again, you know the guys who did the thing which is the justification for Real ID? My memory isn’t what it used to be…
I flew from Orlando, FL to San Diego, Ca on July 1st. I was removing my hiking boots when the TSA agent informed me I no longer needed to remove my shoes starting that day (new policy). I stepped into the whole body scanner and was sent back because the metal eyelets in my boots set off the scanner. I saw the image and my boots did alert on the image. I had to remove my boots and send them through the conveyor belt scanner.
That TSA agent must have have a day off from his regular job as a rocket scientist.
In Atlanta in April, the public service announcement in the line right before going through security said: take all laptops out of their bags and put them in a separate bin.
I did so. I was reprimanded by an agent saying that the laptops should stay in the bags. I mentioned the broadcasted announcement saying to do the opposite. She muttered something about having to change the recording.
Then, the backpack with the laptop went under the scanner. It was pulled aside and emptied, and another agent took the laptop out of the bag and checked it separately.
TSA is not staffed by the best and the brightest.
The iq of screeners has dropped precipitously in the past 15 years.
I got the same treatment for a rude of toothpaste in my bag.
Body scans are a gross invasion of privacy & I’m just not doing it.
In April, after 12 years, I broke my promise to never enter an airport again. I did it for the only person left in the world that I’d do it for.
Thank God that I got there in time but now that she’s gone … I’ll never have to do it again.
Condolences 🙏🏻.
IMO so are colonoscopies! Anything to lie and invade our bodies!
Very good. Continue to reform this broken TSA process. We need to be just like the Netherlands. Technology has made these screening practices archaic. MAGA
Let’s just dump the TSA entirely and not replace it with the next generation of biometric surveillance systems.
You keep your shoes on when crossing over from Mexico
I’m actually flying tomorrow – NC/NY, but I’m over 70 (Yikes) so don’t have to remove my shoes anyway.
However, I was unable to get the now “required” *real ID @ DMV (not for lack of trying) waited hours at 2 different offices – left and never even got inside! Beyond inefficient!!
Applied for a Passport ($246), so hopefully that will suffice and I’ll get to NY…
Passports are fine. So are a dozen other types of Federal ID. And TSA only threatens it “might” subject non-holders to enhanced screening. You’ll be fine.
You don’t have to have it – you can’t fly is a lie first told by Obama
And Noem.
Interesting. I can report first hand that Detroit Metro Airport did ask me and my wife to place our shoes in the bin on Friday (4th of July).
I believe the shoes removal was the result of one person’s actions on an overseas flight. You might recall the same thing happened in dental practices…gloves, masks, long sleeves…because of one crazy dentist in Florida who deliberately infected a patient with HIV. Didn’t all types of seals and enclosures on over the counter drug store items be mandated because of one unhinged person’s actions of injecting something in bottles in Washington? I’m sure there are other examples of over-reacting …driving up prices or causing massive inconvenience just because of one mentally-ill person’s action.
There was an incident back in the early 80s with a guy poisoning his wife’s Tylenol. That’s what prompted the seal to be introduced for OTC drugs (at least I think that was what happened…).
Abbott labs – Tylenol.
cactismatt: Johnson & Johnson, not Abbott.
McNeil Pharmaceuticals, subsidiary of J & J Fort Washington, PA.
So wone was tampering with the bottles that were on the store shelves. What a monster.
I thought it was an employee, but that was sooo long ago, my memory is not the same😃
“I believe the shoes removal was the result of one person’s actions on an overseas flight.”
Richard Reid aka: “The Shoe Bomber.” Flight from Paris to the US.
Because his shoes didn’t go off, our shoes have to come off.
Now that that’s out of the way, DON’T agree to the facial recognition scan when you first enter TSA. You don’t have to (yet), is voluntary. And will remain voluntary as long as enough people decline. Refusing only takes an extra 20 seconds for them to look at your ID. Is worth it to avoid ALL of the surveillance systems they have waiting for us – pending enough “voluntary” compliance that won’t gum up the works and result in long delays. When we voluntarily comply to the point that there’s only 20% or fewer who don’t they hesitate. Just like with masks. Wasn’t until they got 80-85% voluntary compliance that they mandated it. Sames.
I always ‘Opt Out’. My wife hates it…That is what my Passport or DL is for – my Govt Id, not my face.
“Now that that’s out of the way, DON’T agree to the facial recognition scan when you first enter TSA.”
What about those who must wear a mask?
Some say they do it because of Covid. I say it’s because I identify as The Lone Ranger. 🙂
I hate the wanding and frisking.
I just went through TSA at Sanford/Orlando. I’m a 72 year old male in a wheelchair and had to remove my shoes, empty my pockets, and get groped. What a load of bullshit. Abolish TSA already.
We just did Sanford last week Whubba. My wife and I watched in dismay as one of the tsa goons gleefully groped an older woman in a wheel chair as if she was any kind of threat. He also carefully wiped down the chair arms and seat to analyze it for explosive material residue…best part is it’s the airport’s wheelchair. Beyond useless theater.
Granny had been out at her gun club unloading dad’s BAR on the 300 yd range…
Wonder how many newbie house and senate would win office on the promise to abolish TSA?
“The groping, petting and molestation will continue.”
~TSA
I also realized just how beautiful my wife is when the butch Lesbians kept singling her out to grope on her.
Sick perverts.
They do that to me all the time, and I’m an old granny with glasses and chubby legs.
I still don’t consent.
TSA foot fetishists cope and seethe.
guess this is progress.
“everything including your personage are scanned as you pass through the newer tech systems/gateways and you do not need to take off anything, nor remove anything from carry on luggage. It makes travel much faster.”
BUT IS IT (MEDICALLY/BIOLOGICALLY) SAFE?
This has nothing to do with the TSA, but maybe it is worth two minutes of your time to listen to the song from 1955, “D*** Yankees.”
Shoeless Joe from Hannibal MO.
Get rid of TSA inside of Homeland Security and the evil Patriot Act.
All a con.
With the artificial intelligence… they’ll just scan us before we leave our homes using our WIFI and smart appliances… and every time we try to leave our 15 minute city.
$500B for AI
$70B for Border Security
That’s one major focal point.
How many people remember why we had to start taking our shoes off in the first place? It was always a dumb policy.
Look at all those elderly terrorists being patted down in the photos above. Frightening.
Bummer. I’m old enough that I haven’t had to remove my shoes for awhile. That made me feel special, but now it’s all gone.
Still think you are free?
Trump bought us a few years to prepare, USE THEM.
The camps are still coming, and way worse.
Next Dhimocrat in Office can dial it up….
I enjoyed the clever title.
having fun when you are winning is a very very good thing to do.
keep it up sundance. keep IT up.
God Bless America
Now drop TSA!
Geez, that looks like “Tampon” Tin Walz in the lower left photo. In the frame after that photo, I’d like to see the TSA guy’s boot planted in Walz’s backside.
Oh! Oh!
We can keep our shoes on?!
Gee, thanks Mr. Govt!!!!!
Let freedom ring!
/S
“Please Sir, may I have another bowl of porridge?”
I hate taking off my belt. It’s 2.5” full grain leather, and more than one TSA officer has remarked it’s a big one. My shoulders don’t have to mobility to reach behind me like they used to and threading it back through the loops, when you often have an armful of stuff, one hand holding your pants up trying to find a bench or column to re-dress yourself, is a pain in the butt.
need suspendors.
No. Need to eliminate that rule about belt removal.
Need to eliminate TSA