Kourtney Kardashian Revealed That “Protective” Travis Barker Didn’t Want Her And Baby Rocky To Fly Without Him After His 2008 Plane Crash

In addition to the physical injuries, Travis’s mental health suffered from both the trauma of the crash and survivor’s guilt. At one point, he said that he had such bad PTSD he couldn’t even walk down the street if there was a plane in the sky, and he didn’t fly again for 13 years.

In August 2021, Travis credited his now-wife Kourtney Kardashian-Barker with helping him overcome his fear when he shared a photo of them kissing in front of a private jet and wrote: “With you anything is possible.”

However, in this week’s episode of The Kardashians, Kourtney revealed that Travis understandably still has some anxiety about flying as she explained why she wouldn’t be joining the family’s trip to Aspen.

In case you didn’t know, Kourtney and Travis welcomed their first child together, a son called Rocky, in November, and the trip was scheduled for January.

While Kourtney was invited to bring Rocky on the otherwise child-free getaway, she said that “protective” Travis wasn’t comfortable with them taking the two-hour flight without him.

As Kris laughed, Kourtney pointedly added: “So I think he feels the same way about me getting on a plane without him… For the first flight.”

Interestingly, Kylie Jenner was also planning to go and even boarded the private jet that was flying the family there before panicking over the plane’s safety. 

She ended up disembarking the aircraft shortly before take-off after being struck with crippling anxiety that something bad was going to happen.

Meanwhile, baby Rocky took his first flight with both Kourtney and Travis in February. They spent the month in Australia while Travis was touring the country with his band Blink-182.

The Kardashians can be streamed on Hulu in the US and Disney+ internationally.