This airline is weighing passengers before they board

Source: Sarah Carty - Yahoo7 Be

Two American businessmen have reportedly filed complaints against Hawaiian Airlines after they were apparently weighed before boarding their flight.
The two men also claim they were assigned separate seats to redistribute weight around the aircraft and they have now filed a complaint with the US Department of Transport against the airline.
According to Radio New Zealand, Hawaiian Airlines has implemented a new policy where passengers are unable to pre-select their seats online and they will only be allocated seats once they have been weighed in.

The airline claims that it has been forced to implement the policy on its Boeing 767 plane to meet the manufacturer’s guidelines.

Due to people's increasing weight the airline also states they will need to limit the amount of passengers per row and they may have to limit reserving certain seats for young children.

Haleck's Enterprise's president Avamua David Haleck said: "Hawaiian is saying that it is a safety issue, so have we been flying unsafe for all these years?”

Hawaiian Airlines has been flying the Boeing 767-300 to American Samoa since 2003.

In 2013, Samoa Air became the first airline in the world to charge passengers according to their siz.

According to he CIA’s World Factbook, American Samoa has the highest rate of obesity in the world, with a whopping 74.6 per cent considered to be obese.