Baby born at 2,000ft gets free flights for life from airline



Most baby boys can expect nothing more than a cuddly toy and an 'It's a boy' balloon to welcome them into the world.

Not so for one lucky newborn, who made a surprise arrival on board an AirAsia flight last week.

The tot, who was born at 2,000 feet after his mother went into labour during the flight, has been given free air travel for life by the budget airline.

Jet setter: The new baby will have free flights for life

AirAsia said 31-year-old passenger Liew Siaw Hsia went into labour on a flight last week from the northern island of Penang to Kuching on Borneo island.

She was reportedly 27 weeks pregnant, 11 weeks short of the full term.



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 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.



The 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,' AirAsia's director of operations Moses Devanayagam said after visiting them in hospital.

