On December 4th, 2009 a lady delivered a baby boy on a Southwest Airlines flight.Even though the captain decided to divert to Denver the baby still joined the mile high club!
A doctor and two nurses on board helped deliver the baby at the back of the plane with the help of flight attendants and an in-flight medical radio service. Both are fine.
How would you handle this:
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Charge her for a second ticket?
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Refund her ticket?
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Do nothing?







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I’d give her free miles as a baby present and offer the parents and baby free tickets to any destination on the baby’s birthday. After all, she’s officially a Southwest baby!
Good point, Steve. I think I’d do the same.
Wes,
IF this happened on the following airlines:
United: Can’t happen. Flight was cancelled.
American: Lets see, thats a one way ticket purchased at time of flight $10000 plus baggage, $50
I think you give the crew an award, the nurses who helped get free tickets, the family of the child gets a scholarship