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A $200,000 (approximately 300,000,000 KRW) damages lawsuit has been filed against U.S. and European airlines, alleging that passengers were bitten by bedbugs on a U.S. passenger flight bound for Europe.
According to NBC on the 25th (local time), Romulo Albuquerque, who lives in Virginia, traveled in March with his wife and two children, flying on a Delta Air Lines flight from Roanoke to Atlanta, then connecting via Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to a KLM flight to Belgrade, Serbia.
According to the complaint, about two hours after the flight to Amsterdam began, they "felt like bugs were crawling on their bodies and that they were being bitten," and said that "at that moment, they discovered bugs (bedbugs) crawling on their clothes."
The parents immediately informed the flight attendants, but claim they were asked to "lower their voices" so as not to cause panic among other passengers on board.
The Albuquerque family recorded video and took photos of bugs crawling on their clothes and in the gaps between seats, as well as dead bugs on a beverage napkin provided by KLM, and submitted them to the court, stating that due to bedbug bites they developed "swollen, itchy hives, lesions, and rashes across the torso and limbs."
The flight they used was operated by KLM, a European airline, and was purchased through the Delta 'SkyMiles' program. The Albuquerque family filed a lawsuit against KLM and Delta.
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