As a cabin crew member employed by a well known charter airline, we were recently going through security at SFB where all crew members had to take off their shoes and place them on to the X-ray machine (11 crew in total). Standing behind us waiting to go through security were 328 of our passengers - amazingly none of them had to take off their shoes (no matter what they were wearing). I don't find taking my shoes off a problem, but surely things should be standardised across the board - passengers should be subjected to the same security measures as what crew are. What sort of impression is this giving to our SLF when all the crew are heavily checked and monitored, and they can just "breeze" through?