TSA to complete the shoe policy for airport safety screening

Almost 20 years after the passengers of the airlines were first required to remove their shoes for security, the policy is being eliminated.

The Security Administration (TSA) transportation plans to authorize passengers to keep their shoes when they go through the general security line of many major airports across the country, two sources said in ABC News.

An unexpected memo went to the TSA officers across the country last week, indicating that the new policy will allow all passengers to keep their shoes in all the projection routes of many airports across the country, from Sunday.

The objective is to launch the new policy at all American airports shortly, according to memo. Previously, only passengers on the TSA Precheck line were able to keep their shoes in most cases.

The transport agency has spent years looking for an innovative way to allow passengers to move more quickly through the security control points.

Passengers who trigger the alarm on scanners or magnetometers, however, will have to remove their shoes for additional screening, depending on the memo.

This is a major change since the TSA began to demand that passengers remove their shoes in 2006.

The policy occurred five years after Richard Reid tried to explode an American Airlines from Paris to Miami with explosives packaged in his shoes. The explosives did not explode and Reid was maintained by passenger colleagues and the driving crew.

ABC News contacted TSA for a comment.