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Apr 27, 2021, 2:35 am

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Originally Posted by ademanuele

I flew the Manchester to London shuttle for the first time since the start of the pandemic last week. For some reason I was asked to remove my shoes at the First Wing in T5, apparently they ask all customers to do this now (since pandemic). Any ideas why, was not used to remove shoes at Manchester?

Hi,

This has been asked before iirc. I believe the aim is to reduce contact between the security personnel and the pax if the pax need a manual search and removing the shoes is the approach adopted by lhr. Not sure why man does it different.

Regards

Tbs

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