Friday, October 23, 2009

Baby boy gets free flights for life

And I thought I had done it all.... I guess there's always next time ;)

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.

3 comments:

Jocelyn said...

Free flights for life is the only way someone could convince me to have another baby right now! :)

Wonder if they got a front page write-up like you did??!!!

Jocee Bergeson said...

very cool!

Amber Bradley said...

I just started teaching tumbling at the sports academy for the preschool class. Dawson and Naomi were in my class. They are both so cute and did a great job.