Uzbekistan Airways Will Weigh Weight Passengers Before Flying

 

Airline Uzbekistan Airways will provide the scale to measure the weight of passengers on each departure gate at the airport. This step is performed to determine the weight of each passenger and their luggage. 

Weight management promising airline passengers will be kept confidential. "Under the rules of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the airline is required to run the regular procedure of pre-flight inspection, including the weight of passengers and luggage for the sake of flight safety," the official statement Uzbekistan Airlines. 

Airlines based in Tashkent and has a motto of "security, stability and comfort" it does not explain whether the passenger weighs "more" will be charged an extra fee or banned using small aircraft. The airline also has not explained the steps to be taken if the weight of all passengers and their luggage exceeds the set limit. 

According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), released in 2008, more than 44 percent of the population of Uzbekistan aged over 20 years have a body weight "jumbo" and 15 percent of the population suffer from obesity. The WHO report estimates that in 2020, 13 percent of men and 20 percent of women of Uzbekistan in the same age range will be obese. Uzbekistan Airways serves several routes in Eastern Europe and Russia, as well as serving Tashkent-London flight.

 These are sometimes used for domestic and regional flights by travel agencies that offer tours "Silk Road" and the Central Asia. In 2013, the airline Samoa Air became the first airline in the world to sell tickets in accordance with the weight of passengers. How this is done as an effort to reduce the number of obese citizens Samoa.