US airports will no longer require passengers to remove their shoes during security screenings run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, said the nationwide policy will take immediate effect.
She added that passengers must still remove belts and coats and take laptops and liquids out of bags, however those rules are also under review.
This move comes 20-years after it was implemented, following the failed December 2001 attack, where Richard Reid, who became known as the “shoe bomber,” tried to use matches to ignite explosives hidden in his shoes on a flight from Paris to Miami.
