A woman delivered a baby boy inside IndiGo¡¯s Delhi-Bengaluru flight on Wednesday, according to an official statement from the airline.
¡°We confirm that a baby boy was delivered prematurely on flight 6E 122 from Delhi to Bangalore. There are no further details available,¡± Indigo said in a statement.
?"A baby boy was born enroute on the Delhi-Bengaluru 6E 122 flight that landed at the Bengaluru airport around 7.30 PM today," an aviation industry source told PTI.
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Both the mother and baby boy are healthy. Many?shared pictures of the crew members holding the baby, which have now gone viral on social media platforms.?
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The IndiGo crew members are also being praised for helping the woman deliver onboard the flight, safely.?
IndiGo airlines has announced a lifetime free flight ticket for the child, according to a report by NBT.
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After the flight landed in Bangalore, the mother and the girl child were given a great welcome at the airport.?
A mid-flight baby is incredibly rare, but not unheard of. Back in 2017, Jet Airways gave free flight tickets for life to a boy born on one of its flights between Saudi Arabia and India.?The flight, which was bound for Kochi from Saudi Arabia was diverted to Mumbai, where the mother and baby were taken to a hospital.??
In a similar move, budget carrier AirAsia, in 2009, did the same for a Malaysian mother and her son. Cebu Pacific, a Filipino airline gifted one million air miles to the baby girl born on the Dubai to Manila flight.