The woman was only seven months pregnant when she unexpectedly went into labour a few hours into a flight from Dubai to the Philippines.
Flustered flight attendants moved her to the front of the plane where there was more leg room - and two off-duty nurses on the flight came to help.
Amazingly, the healthy baby girl - named Haven - was delivered safely in just one hour amid cheers from fellow passengers on the nine-hour flight to Manila.
The plane then made an emergency landing in India where doctors whisked the baby off to an incubator as a precaution.
Missy Berberabe Umandal, 20, who pictured the mother and baby on the Cebu Pacific Air flight, said it was the most amazing thing she has ever seen on a flight.
The unidentified woman, a Filipino who is understood to live in Dubai, had been travelling back home to the Philippines with her mother, who had flown there to help her with the journey.
Flight crew used blankets as a make-shift screen around the mother when contractions started on the Boeing 777-300ER.
After giving birth, two other passengers who had baby clothes in their hand luggage gave the newborn a t-shirt and tiny trousers to help keep her warm.
Air hostesses then filled a container from the overhead compartments with bottled mineral water to wash the baby.
The flight, which had left Dubai at 3.30am on Sunday, then made an emergency landing at Rajiv Gandhi Int'l Airport, in Hyderabad, central India, where doctors rushed on the plane to check the baby.
The woman and her mother left the flight and the baby was rushed to hospital and placed in an incubator, a standard procedure for premature births.
Medics cleaned the seats and the floor where the woman had been sitting and after a three-hour stop, the flight took off again.
A male air steward even a suggested the lucky girl could get free flights for life on the budget carrier - an unwritten tradition among some airlines when a baby is born on a plane.
Cebu Pacific Air said they were still looking into whether a baby girl born on a flight from Dubai to Manila would receive free flights for life.
17/08/16 Express
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Flustered flight attendants moved her to the front of the plane where there was more leg room - and two off-duty nurses on the flight came to help.
Amazingly, the healthy baby girl - named Haven - was delivered safely in just one hour amid cheers from fellow passengers on the nine-hour flight to Manila.
The plane then made an emergency landing in India where doctors whisked the baby off to an incubator as a precaution.
Missy Berberabe Umandal, 20, who pictured the mother and baby on the Cebu Pacific Air flight, said it was the most amazing thing she has ever seen on a flight.
The unidentified woman, a Filipino who is understood to live in Dubai, had been travelling back home to the Philippines with her mother, who had flown there to help her with the journey.
Flight crew used blankets as a make-shift screen around the mother when contractions started on the Boeing 777-300ER.
After giving birth, two other passengers who had baby clothes in their hand luggage gave the newborn a t-shirt and tiny trousers to help keep her warm.
Air hostesses then filled a container from the overhead compartments with bottled mineral water to wash the baby.
The flight, which had left Dubai at 3.30am on Sunday, then made an emergency landing at Rajiv Gandhi Int'l Airport, in Hyderabad, central India, where doctors rushed on the plane to check the baby.
The woman and her mother left the flight and the baby was rushed to hospital and placed in an incubator, a standard procedure for premature births.
Medics cleaned the seats and the floor where the woman had been sitting and after a three-hour stop, the flight took off again.
A male air steward even a suggested the lucky girl could get free flights for life on the budget carrier - an unwritten tradition among some airlines when a baby is born on a plane.
Cebu Pacific Air said they were still looking into whether a baby girl born on a flight from Dubai to Manila would receive free flights for life.
17/08/16 Express
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