If the scale in your private hotel room feels confrontational, consider being weighed publicly at airline check-in.

CNN has reported that Uzbekistan Airlines, citing safety, plans to weigh passengers and their carry-on luggage to quantify how much weight they will add to the flight. If the experience sounds humiliating, the results were promised to remain confidential, and the airline has not said whether extra weight would result in fees.

The policy announcement no longer appears on the carrier’s website, but we invite readers to, ahem, weigh in. Should passengers pay by the pound to fly?