Originally Posted by Spiff
"TSA strongly encourages passengers to remove their shoes before going through the metal detectors."
Screw them.
TSA "leadership" = Stupid morons with shoe fetishes.
And the idiots can't even make up their mind about shoes.
Las Vegas: I start to take off my shoes and they tell me that mine aren't of interest, leave them on.
Next flight, San Francisco: I figure they've decided my shoes don't matter, I leave them on. I draw an EOD swab. I asked them about it and they say it doesn't matter what Las Vegas does, that's how they do it.
Now, a high volume business traveller can learn the rules of the various airports but how can us occasional travellers (that 2P status reflects only two trans-pac trips/year) know the unposted rules of each airport??