Originally Posted by wldtrvlr
I always wear the same pair of reeboks and the ONLY airport in the country that SUGGESTS I take them off is D/FW. However, they SUGGEST everyone take them off. I have been round and round with the Supervisor at D/FW and he says that D/FW is following SOP, so obviously every other airport in the country I have flown through is NOT. I think it is a farce.
The same is true in PVD; a chat with the supervisor proved fruitless. As to OP's comment, in all my flights from SFO and LAX (about half a dozen this year, mostly on AA), I was never asked to take off my shoes.
Alex