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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz)
Subject: Re: Mile High Club -- Baby on Board
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 15:34:28 GMT

I called three airlines and two (Northwest & Delta) have no restrictions on pregnant women flying and the other (American) wants a doctor to OK it if the woman is within 7 days of expected delivery or within 7 days after delivery.
(all the airlines questioned suggest that the woman's doctor approve any flying)

None of the airlines give "free flying for life" to babies born in a plane. The agents I talked to (at the airlines) all found this amusing and one insisted on asking his supervisor (probably to share the story)

Brian "And if you give birth on a plane you get a bill for the portion

of the flight the baby flew" Leibowitz

[Barbara Hamel adds another datapoint: Air Canada requires women more than 35 weeks pregnant to inform the airline of their condition and have an Air Canada physician consult with her doctor about the individual woman's risk, to make sure mother and baby are healthy enough to fly. No free air travel for in-flight babies at Air Canada, either, though babies have been born on board Air Canada flights.]