After almost 10 years of having to take off your footwear every time you travel by air, the TSA will soon be lifting this restriction.  As better screening technology becomes available this nuisance of removing your shoes prior to flights, departing in the US, is not to far away from being lifted.

Taking your shoes off is a security precaution that is only practiced in the United States.  Three months after the Sept. 11th attacks, a British born, self-proclaimed al-Qaeda member tried to set off a bomb in his shoe on an American Airlines flight to Miami.  He was ultimately subdued by crew & passengers and no other shoe bomb attempt has been attempted since then.