Child delivered on IndiGo flight
A woman gave birth to a baby inside IndiGo’s Delhi-Bengaluru flight 6E122 on Wednesday, according to an official statement from the airline.
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A woman gave birth to a baby inside IndiGo’s Delhi-Bengaluru flight on Wednesday, according to an official statement. In response to a PTI inquiry, IndiGo said: “We confirmed that a baby was born prematurely on flight 6E 122 from Delhi to Bengaluru. No further details are available.” “A baby was born en route on Delhi-Bengaluru flight 6E 122 which landed at Bengaluru airport around 7:30 pm today,” an aviation industry source told PTI.
Both mother and baby are healthy. People on social media are speculating whether the baby will get a free airline ticket for life on IndiGo flights.
It is not something new, but it is incredibly rare and depends on one airline to another. In 2017, Jet Airways provided free airline tickets for life to a child born on one of its flights between Saudi Arabia and India.
The flight, which was heading to Kochi from Saudi Arabia, was diverted to Mumbai, where the mother and baby were taken to a hospital.
In a similar move, low-cost carrier AirAsia, in 2009, did the same with a Malaysian mother and her son. Cebu Pacific, a Philippine airline gifted one million air miles to the girl born en route from Dubai to Manila.
However, not all airlines are generous and we have to wait to hear from Indigo for the same.
More details are expected.
With PTI inputs
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