Airline announces it would start weighing passengers before boarding.

                                                                                              (C)Alamy

Are you flying on Uzbekistan Airways anytime soon? You may consider checking your weight before buying that ticket!
In an effort to ensure flight safety, Uzbekistan Airways has announced that they will start weighing passengers before boarding. A special weighing machine would be installed at departure gates where passengers would be weighed along with their hand luggage.
A statement on the airline’s website reads:
"According to the rules of International Air Transport Association, airlines are obliged to carry out the regular procedures of preflight control passengers weighing with hand baggage to observe requirements for ensuring flight safety."
The airline said that individual passengers' weights would not be disclosed, and “full confidentiality of results is guaranteed”, with the weighing machine only categorising passengers by sex and into adult and child groups.
In 2013, Samoa Air became the world’s first airline to charge passengers by their weight rather than per seat in a bid to raise obesity awareness and improve public health.