When stomach bugs meet turbulence, air travel can become a health hazard for all onboard – and it happens, unfortunately, ‘more regularly than you would think’
A little over an hour into their transatlantic flight, Kate Carson’s daughters had just laid down to sleep when suddenly their Air New Zealand “cuddle class” skycouch became a “nightmare” scene.
A stomach bug that had been troubling their family during the holiday reared its head again: her youngest, three years old, started throwing up. “The first time, she was asleep, and no one saw it coming, and it went all into the seat … down the side and into the crack,” Carson says.