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.


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does free flights include first class?

haha airports always promises these things to pregnant until the baby is actually born on a plane then they would feel annoyed that they need to keep their words

it is a universal rule already that any baby born on plane will be given free lifetime ticket form that company
that's why mom who is in their 8 to 9th month of prenagncy are discouraged to be on board

I'm surprised the mother was allowed on board in the first place. It's rather unsafe and irresponsible for the mother to be flying at that stage of pregnancy.

I thought women that pregnant wouldn't be allowed on the plane for safety reasons...

Now all pregnant women are going to go on planes in their 9th month

not all carriers give free flights to babies born on planes

its dangerous to start with, shouldnt be on a plane in the latter part of the pregnancy.