I will believe it when I see it. Most TSA agents don’t follow the official rules, and seem to just do whatever they feel like on any given day. I’ve had to take my shoes off for even TSA Pre which shouldn’t even happen already.
What gets me is the inconsistency of everything. Do I need just my ID? Boarding pass? Both? Then you get annoyance from the agent because you do not know today’s policy.
I typically found that it's consistent at individual airports, but that each airport could be different.
But the fact that TSA agents refused to acknowledge that it can work differently at each airport was certainly obnoxious.
For years, every time I went to Las Vegas from my home in Portland, the PDX TSA would have to tell everyone to take off their shoes, while the LAS TSA would tell everyone to keep their shoes on. Occasionally, someone would be like "Huh, that's different from $OTHER_AIRPORT" and the TSA agent would be like "Sir, it's the same everywhere".
Of course, PDX recently got a remodel and with it, new scanners, so now shoes can stay on.
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But the fact that TSA agents refused to acknowledge that it can work differently at each airport was certainly obnoxious.
For years, every time I went to Las Vegas from my home in Portland, the PDX TSA would have to tell everyone to take off their shoes, while the LAS TSA would tell everyone to keep their shoes on. Occasionally, someone would be like "Huh, that's different from $OTHER_AIRPORT" and the TSA agent would be like "Sir, it's the same everywhere".
Of course, PDX recently got a remodel and with it, new scanners, so now shoes can stay on.