After getting their own restaurant meals, celebrity fans, and even arch enemies, Look Thep dolls can now count airplane flights among their privileges.
Thai Smile Airways will now allow passengers to buy tickets for the haunted dolls, allowing them to have their own seats on the plane and even get served food and drinks, Thai PBS reported.
An internal memo was recently issued by the airline to its employees advising them of the move.
“Look Thep is a doll who is alive.” the note said. “Look Thep is a doll whose spirit was created to live in the doll and can be raised like a child. Owners can take them to travel.”
Look Thep, or “Child God,” are a popular superstitious trend among Thais, who believe they are possessed by a child’s spirit.
Fans raise the dolls as their own children, taking them out in public and even buying them designer clothes in the belief they will bring them good luck.
Thai Smile Airways said it had decided to sell air tickets to the dolls, which it referred to as “Child Angels,” after staff reported several passengers who took the dolls on vacation and were reluctant to put them in cargo hold.
Many would put the dolls on their laps and some asked plane staff to serve their “children” snacks and drinks, the airline said.
However there will be some restrictions on the dolls. They can’t sit in the middle row or in emergency exit seats, which are reserved for passengers who need special assistance.
The airline memo also noted: “Look Thep must also fasten their seatbelts during departure and landing.”
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