A basal keiki is a good thing! Especially if it comes when the mother plant is hale and hearty. When it matures, which it will much more quickly than a seedling plant, you'll have two flowering plants rather than one.
My personal preference is to keep basal keikis possted with their mother plant. I like the showiness of the extra blooming spikes. You take care of it like a single Phal, but maybe watching a bit more closely to make sure that all of the roots in the pot are being properly hydrated - two plants will obviously need more sustenance than one.
If you're going to split them, be very careful. Both plants must have a good, vigorous root system so that they can easily survive, and even thrive, as single plants. But, IMHO, it's more important to pay attention to HOW you divide the two. The keiki needs to have a strong, healthy stem/rhizome so that when you clip it off you won't cause damage to the plant. Further, when you do clip you need to make sure that the cut is done with sterile pruners and the cut area of the plant is sealed with some sort of fungal fighter. The easiest thing to use to seal the plant is powdered cinnamon. But again, this leads to a reason to keep the two plants together: it saves you the risk of cutting a Phal. Eventually, over a few years, the two will naturally grow apart and you can separate them far more easily.
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and later gave me some 3 other keikis, so, now I wait again 
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