The mother - believed to be Ethiopian and in her thirties - caught a flight before the infant's body was discovered by a cleaner at Dubai International Airport.
She was identified using security camera footage and is being hunted by police.
The woman allegedly severed the baby boy's umbilical cord with her bare hands and strangled him with a cloth before dumping him.
The infant was discovered when a woman passenger informed one of the airport's cleaners about a pool of blood in the bathroom.
Traces of blood led to the bin where the baby was found, soaked in blood, tied up with his umbilical cord in a tightly wrapped plastic bag.
The boy was still gasping for breath but a rescue team and volunteers could not revive him.
'At around 3.35am I went to the toilet to clean up the blood around a toilet bowl,' the cleaner told the Khaleej Times newspaper.
'After that I decided to empty the waste bin which was covered with paper rolls.
'When I lifted it I found it to be a little heavier, so I got curious and started removing the tissue papers.
'I was stunned to see a baby all blue on the face and gasping for breath.'
It is unclear whether the woman was a UAE resident, tourist or passenger in transit.
A security source said it appeared the woman had strangled the infant, whose body was undergoing further tests.
'Most likely the woman wanted to get rid of the baby as it was a child outside wedlock,' said the source. 'It seems that the woman had intended to leave the UAE before the delivery but was faced with a different reality in the airport
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