Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has begun a facial recognition pilot project for boarding passengers. The program—a partnership of the airport, the Dutch govt, Cathay Pacific Airways, KLM and Vision-Box, the company responsible for the Seamless Flow facial recognition system—aims to eventually make it unnecessary for passengers to display documents. Under the pilot project, Cathay Pacific passengers arriving at Schiphol for outbound flights are invited, after checking in, to take part in the trial. Participants are escorted to a registration kiosk where their passports and the boarding passes are scanned while a facial image is captured, and a biometric token is generated for each traveller. The token allows a passenger to proceed through a boarding gate without having to show any documents. <br/>