It’s only happened a handful of times, but yet another airliner is giving a baby born on one of its flights a free pass for life. Indian airliner Jet Airways said it would give a baby boy born on a flight between Saudi Arabia and India free flights for life, CNN reports, after his mother went into labor prematurely on Sunday. A trained paramedic, one of the passengers, helped deliver the newborn at 35,000 feet alongside members of the flight crew. The flight, originally destined for Kochi, in the south of the country, was rerouted to Mumbai. The new mother and baby were transported to a hospital and are “doing well,” a spokesperson for the airline told CNN.
Wait what? Hold the goddamn phone. That article makes it sound like it’s standard procedure to just give babies free flights for life if they’re born on a flight. If this is an airline policy more pregnant ladies need to be taking advantage of this. We should see a ton more SUPER pregnant chicks on flights. Seems like the airline just messed up bigtime by publicly acknowledging this loophole.
On the other hand, who the hell thinks its safe to fly while being that pregnant. No one way that is safe and on the flip side, imagine being on a flight while a woman is giving birth? Im annoyed when i’m next to a crying baby, imagine getting the seat next to the women giving birth….Honestly the baby shouldn’t get free flights for life. Everyone else on that airplane should get free flights for life for having to put up with that shit. Airlines should not incentivize births on their aircrafts for the sake of their passengers. I will personally never fly with Jet airways, hell ill take the risk of a United Flight over flying with them.