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> Many European and all Canadian airports do Despite shoes not needing to be routinely removed at most (all?) European airports' security checkpoints?
by logifail 3y ago
> Many European and all Canadian airports do
Despite shoes not needing to be routinely removed at most (all?) European airports' security checkpoints?
- ghaff 3y agoThat's the main discrepancy which the US basically overlooks for non-US security procedures. (Though there's some seemingly arbitrary variance in electronics screening as well.)
- adastra22 3y agoShoes being removed isn’t required in the US either. I haven’t had to do that in years. It’s a per-airport thing.
- ghaff 3y agoI thought that was still pretty normal. But I have pre-check so don't actually know.
- logifail 3y ago> I thought that was still pretty normal I had to remove shoes at security at both JFK and SFO recently.
- ghaff 3y agoIt wouldn't shock me if there were a few things that aren't technically requirements that are still near-universal (for non pre-check) in the US--which give some leeway for travelers coming in from overseas airports that don't have the same equipment or requirements.
- adastra22 3y agoIt is normal. But the point is that it is not required that an airport perform that check, in the same way there are requirements about x-ray and metal detectors, for example. Some airports just don't do the shoe thing.
- ghaff 3y agoPerhaps that's the loophole. Although my anecdotal observation at the generally major airports I fly in and out of in the US is that people are pretty much universally taking off shoes if they're not in the pre-check line.