Originally Posted by indo79
I think SFO is one of the worst. Yesterday the priority line was 30-40 deep and I don’t believe they enforce the “priority” for everyone. And how is it that only SFO “recommends” that you take off your shoes, and if you don’t, you will automatically be singled out for secondary screening even if it does not cause the alarm to sound.
ORD, SNA, LAX, BOS, SJC does not “recommend” you to take off your shoes.
In PHX they always made me take off my shoes no matter what I was wearing that day. I thought it was a bit rediculous but then again if you show the slightest amount of resistence to what they're asking you gotta fear to be sent over to the secondary screening which is just humiliating becasue you feel like a criminal. and IMO it does very little to provide more security for the airlines anyway.