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Published in TZ Latest News 15 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Airline Begins Weighing Passengers, Will ‘Exclude’ Heavy Flyers

In 2013, Samoan Air became the world’s first airline to charge passengers according to their their weight. Now, two years later, Uzbekistan Airways has gone one further than the pay-by-weight model. The Tashkent-based airline has installed special weighing machines in the departure gate zones to weigh people and their hand luggage, noting that some overweight people could be excluded from busy flights on smaller planes if limits are exceeded.

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