KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – A baby boy who made a surprise arrival on board an AirAsia flight this week will be given free flights for life with the budget carrier, as will his mother, the airline said Friday.
AirAsia said 31-year-old passenger Liew Siaw Hsia went into labour on Wednesday's flight from the northern island of Penang to Kuching on Borneo island.
The aircraft made an emergency diversion to the Malaysian capital but the baby arrived just before landing, delivered by a doctor who was on board and who was assisted by the airline's flight attendants.
"The baby was safely delivered when flight AK 6506 was approaching Kuala Lumpur for landing at 2,000 feet," the airline said in a statement, adding that mother and baby were taken to a nearby hospital following touchdown.
"To celebrate this momentous occasion, we decided to present both mother and child with free flights for life," said AirAsia's director of operations Moses Devanayagam after visiting them in hospital.

 

free flights for life

Ha! That's what I told my wife when we started dating. I hope it works out better for this kid!

 

If this occured on a US carrier they would get a bill for the deep clean required to get all that baby juice outta the carpet.

 

Umm? I didn't think you were allowed to fly in the US without a note from the doctor after your 2nd trimester or something like that.

Talk about screaming baby in the seat behind you! Ha cha-cha-cha!