A passenger who travelled Air India's Newark-Mumbai flight last week has posted photos of what she says are bed bug bites.
Saumya Shetty, who travelled business class with her three kids, said she was "covered with bed bug bites".
She alleged that despite complaining to Air India staff, she was forced to sleep in the same seat and got a seat change only a short while before landing in Mumbai.
She said she was yet to recieve any response to her complain from the airline.
On Friday, news agency PTI reported that a baby was allegedly bitten by the bed bugs on the Newark-Mumbai flight, leaving the other passengers agitated and delaying the flight's onward journey to Delhi.
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Passengers of a flight on Tuesday from the US to Mumbai also allegedly had this unpleasant experience, and one of them tweeted about his ordeal.
"...Just arrived from New York on Air India 144 business class with family. All our seats infested with bed bugs. Sir, have heard of bed bugs on trains but shocked to experience on our maharaja and that too business," Pravin Tonsekar had tweeted and tagged the airline and the Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu.
(PTI Inputs)
