Bec Judd’s horror family flight leaves her vowing she’ll never leave home again

REBECCA Judd has vowed she will never leave Melbourne again for a holiday after a horror family flight home from Port Douglas.

GETTING your family home on time and in one piece after a school holiday break can be a mission. But sometimes even no amount of planning can save you, as media personality Rebecca Judd found out.

The mother of four described her nightmare experience flying back from a family holiday on KIIS network’s The 3PM Pick Up — which she co-hosts with Monty Diamond and Yumi Stynes — describing it as the “worst flight ever”.

The radio host had been on holiday in Port Douglas with her husband Chris Judd, her mum, and four young children — Oliver, 5, Billie, 3, and twins Tom and Darcy, 9 months. When organising a flight back home to Melbourne last Friday, Bec said she purposely left a “buffer” of three hours in case of any unexpected delays, as Chris needed to return to Melbourne to call an AFL match that night.

“We’d left about three hours just in case there was a delay so we could still get in on time ... You’d think that three hours would be okay,” she told Stynes on The 3PM Pick Up.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly when the flight left on time, but about halfway through the flight, a passenger seated behind Bec and her family fell ill causing the flight to be diverted and setting off an unfortunate chain reaction.

“The poor gentleman behind me vomited everywhere — it kind of went on the back of my seat and down the aisle. Then my children were smelling the vomit and crying ... One of my twins, Tom, smells the vomit and then he decides that he’s going to vomit everywhere as well.

“So vomit is on my legs, it is on my husband, it is on my mum, and my other twin Darcy decides that he has diarrhoea.”

Chris volunteers to take Darcy to the bathroom and change him, where the series of unfortunate events continues.

“My husband has to go into this little plane cubicle and change him. But while he’s changing him, Darcy pulls the air freshener out of the wall and sprays it in his eye.”

The family finally landed in Melbourne after a diversion to Brisbane, but the hilarious nightmare didn’t end there.

“Anyway we are covered in spew and poo, we get to Melbourne airport, and who’s waiting at Melbourne airport for us? A pap.”

Chris ended up being late to the match and Bec said she learnt an important lesson about travelling with a young family.

“It was actually a nightmare! So I have decided in future holidays, I’m never leaving Melbourne. It is just ridiculous,” she joked.

Originally published as Bec Judd’s horror family flight leaves her vowing she’ll never leave home again