Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and security services have been given the go-ahead for a pilot project aimed at providing more efficient security checks at airports in the Netherlands.

Passengers will be checked according to ‘risk categories.’ »

Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport is going to pre-screen passengers from outside the European Union before their arrival.

Some twenty airlines have agree to provide passenger’s personal details immediately after they check in on any of 27 international flights that have been identified as ‘high risk.’ »

Airline passengers barely blinked at using a new security scanning system this past week that essentially lets guards peer beneath their clothes, a spokeswoman for Amsterdam’s airport said. »