From shoe-free screening to facial recognition technology, here's how airport security checkpoints are being transformed in 2025.

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – Another change could be coming to TSA, with new liquid and gel requirements. Just last week, TSA announced that travelers are able to keep their shoes on while going through TSA checkpoints.

When limits on liquids were introduced at TSA checkpoints across the country in 2006, bins overflowed with bottled water, toothpaste, shaving cream and so much more. Nearly two decades later, travelers are much more accustomed to the “3-1-1” regulations" governing the size of the liquids they're flying with,

The Transportation Security Administration is rolling back its long-standing policy requiring passengers to remove shoes at checkpoints.

The shift comes after nearly 20 years of mandatory shoe removal, a rule put in place after the 2001 "shoe bomber" reshaped airport security protocols.

The TSA began requiring travelers to remove their shoes for X-ray screenings in 2006, after Richard Reid, known as the "Shoe Bomber," attempted to blow up a Paris-to-Miami flight with explosives concealed in his footwear in late 2001.

The ‘shoe rule’ came into effect after a terrorist boarded a plane to Miami and attempted to detonate an explosive hidden in his shoes

The US Department of Homeland Security is ending its ‘shoes off’ policy for passengers passing through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints at domestic airports. Secretary for Home