London: A clinically obese Frenchman stranded in the United States because he was deemed too heavy to fly finally took a plane to Britain on Tuesday — only to be refused travel home by the Eurostar cross-channel train.
Kevin Chenais, 22, who weighs 230 kilos (500 pounds), arrived at London's Heathrow airport with his parents after Virgin Atlantic agreed to fly him back from New York.
He had been in the US since May 2012 for treatment for a hormone imbalance and had been set to return home on British Airways last month, but the airline refused to accept him as a passenger, saying he was too heavy.
The family subsequently tried to sail across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2, but the cruise ship's owners also refused to have him on board as well posing more problems for the kid.
After arriving at the Heat-hrow airport, a visibly exhausted Chenais described his ordeal to return home as “terrible, terrible, terrible”.
