Plane baby to have free flights for life
A baby boy who made a surprise arrival on board an AirAsia flight this week would be given free flights for life with the budget carrier, as would his mother, the airline said on Friday.
AirAsia said 31-year-old passenger Liew Siaw Hsia had gone 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, Kuala Lumpur, 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 had been taken to a nearby hospital after 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. - Sapa-AFP
not often we have nice stories like these in the news but it's good to read these when they do pop up !
very generous offer from the airlines i must say !
A baby boy who made a surprise arrival on board an AirAsia flight this week would be given free flights for life with the budget carrier, as would his mother, the airline said on Friday.
AirAsia said 31-year-old passenger Liew Siaw Hsia had gone 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, Kuala Lumpur, 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 had been taken to a nearby hospital after 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. - Sapa-AFP
not often we have nice stories like these in the news but it's good to read these when they do pop up !
very generous offer from the airlines i must say !
