Virginia family alleges bed bugs bit them during transatlantic flight, suing Delta and KLM airlines

A Virginia family, successful a lawsuit, alleges they were bitten and injured by furniture bugs during a transatlantic formation operated by Delta Air Lines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

In a ailment filed past week, the Albuquerque household of Roanoke, Virginia, said the bugs had infested the compartment of a level during a March 21 trip.

"The Albuquerque household developed raised and itchy welts, lesions, and rashes crossed their torsos and extremities, which ruined their household abrogation and has caused humiliation, embarrassment, anxiety, discomfort, inconvenience, aesculapian expenses, and nonaccomplishment of covering and idiosyncratic items," the suit states.

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A KLM Airlines Boeing 737 prepares for landing astatine Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. (iStock)

The family—identified arsenic Romulo Albuquerque; his wife, Lisandra Garcia; and their 2 children, Benicio and Lorenzo Albuquerque—boarded a Delta formation from Roanoke to Atlanta connected March 21. That formation was followed by a KLM formation to Amsterdam and different to Belgrade, Serbia, wherever they planned to sojourn household and friends, the suit said.

Romulo Albuquerque purchased the hose tickets done Delta’s SkyMiles program, the suit states.

Two hours into the formation to Amsterdam, Lisandra Garcia began feeling bugs crawling connected and biting her, the suit said.

A sweater and napkin the Albuquerque household said were infested with furniture bugs.

The mates alerted a formation attendant, who allegedly told them to support their voices down to debar "panic" connected the plane, according to the lawsuit.

The bugs repeatedly spot the household during the flight, it said.

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An representation of a napkin taken by the Albuquerque household showing furniture bugs. (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia Roanoke Division)

"Prior to landing successful Amsterdam, the formation attendants again urged Dr. Albuquerque and Mrs. Garcia not to archer anyone astir the infestation because, if they did so, they would miss their connecting formation to Serbia," the suit alleges.

Albuquerque and Garcia took photos of the bugs and recorded videos showing bugs crawling connected her sweater and different parts of the cabin, the suit said.

Images attached to the suit amusement what are described arsenic furniture bugs connected a KLM napkin and a sweater, arsenic good arsenic disposable bites connected their bodies. The household had to lavation their apparel successful boiling h2o erstwhile they arrived astatine their destination, according to the complaint.

"As this pending litigation yet states, the allegations astatine contented subordinate to flights not operated by Delta Air Lines," Delta told Fox News Digital. "Delta volition reappraisal the ailment and respond accordingly successful owed course."

A subordinate of the Albuquerque household is seen with what a suit claims are bites from furniture bugs from a transatlantic formation earlier this year. (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia Roanoke Division)

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The suit asks that the household beryllium compensated $200,000. Fox News Digital has besides reached retired to KLM for comment.