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I had my travel shoes customised as they were slightly loose which made it tough to walk long distance. By customise I mean an extra layer added on inner side of shoe.
But now I am thinking if this will cause issue in security scanning as they ask us to remove shoes and scan them.
Will it be advisable to wear customised shoes?
If the extra layer is material that is usually used in making shoes, there will be no problems at all.
Even when they used unusual materials, like metal, the scanning of the shoe will show what is done and they can see nothing is wrong with it.
Last year I wore my work boots with reinforced toecaps and the airport security told me not even to bother taking them off. I still did, as I prefer not to make the metal detector beep on me.
The scan people did not want to double check. They did double check some items in an other bag, so they were active. They were able to see through the boots well enough.
At some point in the past, gel insoles were banned if you were flying to/from/within the USA. See gel insoles (PDF). I decided to askTSA directly because user david-k found several references that said they were find to wear.
I messaged TSA and got this response:
Gel insoles are allowed, but as is usual, if you are in standard security line (not precheck for instance), you'll have to remove your shoes and put them through the scanner.
