Gadling

Why wouldn't it fly in the US? The article states, "The airline industry is one of the few where weight requirements aren't discrimination, but rather simply necessary."

And considering it was in his contract and he repeatedly refused subsidized medical weight loss programs before he was terminated, I think PAL is legally on safe ground, whether it be in the local courts here in the RP, or back home there in the US.

Craig, without doing a dunk tank(accurate) or a skin Fold test(much less accurate) on this man, how could you possibly get an exact BMI on him??? its impossible to do an accurate BMI with not enough information. height and weight are not enough of the equation to accurately come to anything close to a BMI. it did say he's around 60 lbs overweight, so remove that and he's at 170, (average BMI is around 16 to 25 %) so if we take a mean average of 20%, in this case he'd be carrying 34lbs of fat at 170 lbs PLUS another 60 lbs OVER that which puts him at 95lbs(WAY approx) of total fat on his body. simple math cal puts him at around 60% BMI of fat! he is SEVERLY overweight. and anyone at 230 lbs and ONLY 5'7" I would see as having a VERY hard time doing his respected duties. again with ONLY "abouts" and "approximates".

I am a F.A. and we have weight rules as well. We have to be able to fit in the jump seat without anything "hanging" over the sides. There was a woman that was suspended because she was too big to fly and I live in Michigan thank you very much. So it does fly in the U.S. no pun intended.

Touché, p.

Hans, I was referring to body mass index, which is (pounds * 703) / inches^2. And I did say that it probably doesn't mean much, since a large-framed short person would register as obese, a tall lean person as malnourished, and so on.