Baby gets free ticket for life for being born in airplane

A new-born baby has been awarded a lifetime of free flights on Buraq Air for being born aboard a plane owned by the airline.


CNN reports that the boy's mother was flying from Tripoli in Libya to Niamey, the capital of Niger, when she went into labor. The mother named the baby Abdul Baset, after the plane's captain in recognition of the role cabin crew played in his birth.

The airline announced the gift on its Facebook page in celebration of the inflight birth.