Babies and planes are a potent mix and one which can always come with the potential for disaster. And one British influencer opened up about how they had to endure a "nightmare" trip with her five-month-old baby when returning from a family vacation in The Maldives. Billie Faiers - widely known in the UK for her appearance on the reality TV show The Only Way Is Essex - revealed she was forced to hold her five-month-old daughter for 12 hours as she and her husband Greg Shepherd jetted back from the southern Asian island in the Indian Ocean. Opening up on her <a href="https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42Ktks/">podcast</a> with her sister Sam, the mom of three claimed she was denied an in-flight bassinet for her baby girl Margot as there were none available when they were traveling back to the UK. The reality star said: "I had a nightmare. We get on the plane and going out there we had the bassinet for Margot, which is what you get when you have a young baby. "Going out, it’s great because where the bassinets are you get the legroom as well, so you know with a baby you’ve got all the stuff and you’re always in and out of the baby bag. "Anyway, we get on the flight and they’re like ‘really sorry the bassinet's broke’. One bassinet on the whole flight." [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/CrGs7NiP4UI/]] Faiers - who also shares her two older children Nelly and Arthur with Shepherd - went on to say: "So I had to hold Margot in my arms for 12 hours – Greg and mum helped as well. I just thought 'please don’t do this to me'. <img class="size-full wp-image-1263223179" src="https://img.vt.co/2023/08/OLD-56.jpg" alt="" width="1535" height="800" />[[imagecaption|| Billie Faiers (right, with sister Sam) opened up about the nightmare journey. Credit: Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty]] "She’s at the age now – she’s five months – she doesn’t want to be restricted in my arms for 12 hours, but we had no choice." Sam - the 33-year-old TV personality's sister - also took a flight she would rather forget when returning from Dubai back to the UK with her son Edward. "Obviously it wasn’t as long but is like six or seven hours," she said. "No bassinet at all and Edward is 11 months and he’s heavy. Paul and I had to hold him the whole flight because the bassinet seat was taken." She continued: "We were like 'Well I requested a bassinet seat. I understand that seat might be taken, but it was a couple that had those four seats with no baby. "And I was like 'can you swap us please because you can see I’ve got a baby here that’s 11 months that’s going to want to lay out and sleep' and I had the same issue. "She wouldn’t move us and I was like, 'but we have a baby, surely the baby comes over legroom' – unless you’re really elderly or something, but these were a couple in their 30s and 40s. It was bad." Babies on planes seem to have become a hot topic this year, with more and more stories dropping regarding infants causing some kind of chaos in one form or another, often completely oblivious to the fact they are doing so, which is kind of brilliant, especially <a href="https://vt.co/news/us/man-explodes-at-parents-because-baby-had-been-crying-for-40-minutes-during-flight">in the case of one passenger</a> who completely lost his mind and called an actual baby "that motherf*****". <h6>Featured image credit: Dave Benett/Getty</h6>

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