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AirAsia said 31-year-old passenger Liew Siaw Hsia went into labour on Wednesday’s flight from the northern island of Penang to Kuching on Borneo island.

The aircraft made an emergency diversion to the Malaysian capital but the baby arrived just before landing, delivered by a doctor who was on board and who was assisted by the airline’s flight attendants.

“To celebrate this momentous occasion, we decided to present both mother and child with free flights for life,” said AirAsia’s director of operations Moses Devanayagam after visiting them in hospital.”

Momentous, indeed.  I wondered if the U.S. carriers would do the same.  We now have to pay for checked-in luggage, food, pillows, and blankets.  Some time ago, I read it somewhere that they were planning to charge the use of lavatories.  How will that work?  Flight attendants will take turns to guard the lavatories.  They won’t let us in until we pay 5 bucks?  “Exact change, please, or no peeing for you!  Pooping is 3 bucks extra.” the flight attendants demand!

I guess we should consider ourselves lucky if the same thing happens on a U.S. carrier, and they don’t treat the mother and the baby as terrorists.

“OMG!  A baby terrorist,” a scared flight attendant screamed.

“This is Captain Beaverhausen from the cockpit.  Child birth on a plane is an act of terrorism.  The plan is now forced to be diverted to a nearby airport.  Everyone will be screened, interrogated, and punished as soon as we land.”

At least, I am not bitter.