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Published: Thu 21 Feb 2019, 12:26 PM

Last updated: Thu 21 Feb 2019, 8:28 PM

After a pregnant woman aboard a JetBlue flight delivered a baby boy 70,000 feet in the air, the airline announced they will rename the aircraft 'Born To Be Blue', after the baby.
On Friday, Flight 1954 was flying from Puerto Rico to Fort Lauderdale when the baby was born mid-air.

Now, in a gooey gesture, JetBlue shared the news on Twitter and said: 'With mom's okay, we'd like to rename [our aircraft] "after our newest baby blue and our youngest customer ever'.
"We'd like to thank the crew and medical professionals on board for their quick action under pressure, and wish the new mother and son all the best," Indian Express quoted JetBlue's corporate communications manager, Jennifer Dang, as saying in NBC 6 on Saturday.
The airline also announced that there were "more baby shower gifts to come" but chose to conceal the details.
This got Twitterati thinking as some were quick to predict that the baby may have won a lifetime worth of free flights.
In a similar incident, two years after a baby was born on a Jet Airways flight, the company announced that the little passenger would receive free passes for life.


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