'Too fat to fly' man now turned away by Eurostar - PHOTO

22:02 | 20.11.2013
'Too fat to fly' man now turned away by Eurostar - PHOTO

'Too fat to fly' man now turned away by Eurostar - PHOTO

A 32-stone man left stranded in the US after British Airways refused to allow him to fly has now been turned away by Eurostar.Kevin Chenais, 22, was due to return home to France last month but was forced to stay in the US when the airline said he was ‘too heavy’.He arrived at London’s Heathrow airport yesterday after Virgin Atlantic agreed to fly him back from New York.But he could not travel on to Paris after Eurostar officials said having him on board would breach its evacuation procedure regulations.‘His weight meant that we would not be able to take care of this person or be able to carry him to evacuate him,’ a spokeswoman said.After arriving in the UK, Mr Chenais described his ordeal as ‘terrible, terrible, terrible’ but thanked Virgin for arranging the flight.‘That was very kind of them, but I was very uncomfortable,’ he said.‘I have a lot of problems with the skin on my thighs and the seat was small.‘The flight was really hard, I didn’t stop crying for the whole flight.’Mr Chenais, who had been in the US since May 2012 for hormone imbalance treatment, is now staying at a hotel near St Pancras station as he looks into other options for returning home.(metro.co.uk)ANN.Az
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