KUWAIT CITY, 13 October 2006 — A baby girl born aboard an Egypt-bound Jazeera Airways flight will be able to fly the Kuwait-based airline for free until the age of 18, the carrier said yesterday. The baby was delivered by a traveling doctor and two cabin crewmembers en route between Kuwait City and Alexandria, in northern Egypt, after her eight-months pregnant mother unexpectedly went into labor. “I think I am having a baby,” Heba Majdy told a crewmember at an altitude of 30,000 feet and 50 minutes before the flight was due to reach the Mediterranean city. Majdy had boarded the aircraft with her doctor having declared her fit to fly. Her baby, named Nancy, was delivered by gynecologist and maternity specialist, Mohammed Al-Saleh, who was a passenger going to Alexandria on vacation. Saleh and the crewmembers quickly created a makeshift delivery room. Twenty minutes later, the flight captain told passengers a baby girl had been born, shortly before he instructed the cheering travelers to fasten their seat belts in preparation for landing.
