(8 Jul 2025)
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Philadelphia – 8 July 2025
1. TSA security wait times
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New York – 8 July 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Sheehan, The Associated Press:
“It is expected that the Transportation Security Administration is going to do away with the requirements that have been in place for about 20 years of having travelers remove their shoes when they pass through airport security checkpoints."
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Philadelphia – 8 July 2025
3. Various of people loading their belongings onto a conveyor at a TSA security checkpoint
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New York – 8 July 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Sheehan, The Associated Press:
“Some airports have already put this new policy into place unannounced where they’re not requiring shoe removal. On Sunday, that’s expected to go into effect for most U.S. airports and shortly after that at all U.S. airports.”
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Philadelphia – 8 July 2025
5. Various of people, with shoes on, going through a TSA security checkpoint
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New York – 8 July 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Sheehan, The Associated Press:
“We don’t know what is driving this decision specifically if there’s an upgrade on the technology used to detect explosives. But one thing that we do know is that the Transportation Security Administration and interaction with it at these checkpoints is one of the friction points."
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Philadelphia – 8 July 2025
7. Various of shoe tight shots
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New York – 8 July 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Sheehan, The Associated Press:
“About three months after September 11th, a man named Richard Reid boarded a Paris-to-Miami flight with explosives in his shoes and tried to ignite them. And by 2006, that policy was official. Everybody had to remove shoes when going through airport security checkpoints unless you were younger than 12 and older than 75.”
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Philadelphia – 8 July 2025
9. Jennifer Winegardner goes through a TSA security checkpoint
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Winegardner, traveler:
"I think it’s an interesting change because I know TSA [PreCheck] hasn’t had that requirement for sometime so I wondered if eventually it would trickle down to… I don’t have TSA PreCheck because I only travel maybe once a year. So, the fee didn’t really make much sense for me. So, it’s a nice change because I know sometimes that’s the big holdup in the line is having to take off shoes and people wanting to stop right there and put their shoes back on. So, I’m hopeful that maybe it will help with the flow of—of people through the security check points."
11. A TSA PreCheck sign
12. A TSA logo
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Winegardner, traveler:
“But I’ve had issues with traveling with my family when there’s four or five of us if my in-laws are with us. Where, you know, we have to wait for, you know, my elderly father-in-law to put on his shoes. Which, you know, it’s hard for somebody who isn’t very mobile — doesn’t have that great mobility. So, when we travel with him, I think it will be a great help, yes.”
14. People load their belongings onto a conveyor at a TSA security checkpoint
STORYLINE:
For the first time in almost 20 years, travelers may no longer be required to take off their shoes during security screenings at U.S. airports.
The Transportation Security Administration is looking to abandon the additional security step that has for years bedeviled anyone passing through U.S airports, according to media reports.
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