Passengers complain of bedbugs on flights out of Newark airport

Fox5 NY ^ | July 20, 2018

[EdnaMode]

- Passengers on flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to India are complaining about bed bug infested seats.

In one case this week a family complained their infant was covered in bites and bleeding by the time the 17-hour flight landed in Mumbia.

Pravin Tonsekar tweeted Air India photos of his seat with apparent bed bugs on them.

Air India replied with a comment that it is: "sorry to hear this. Sharing the details with our maintenance team for corrective measures in this regard."

Another passenger tweeted to the airline that his family few out of Newark on July 18 and his wife and three children were covered in bed ug bites all over their body. He asked, "Is this what we paid $10,000 for???"

[Zhang Fei]

[So by having such leading luminaries managing the national economy for 50-60 years any economic advances from decolonization were going to be strangled at birth!]

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My impression is that there were none. Everyone thought decolonization would make the Brits poor and their colonies rich. As it turns out, the Brits continued doing pretty well, despite the huge toll taken by WWI and WWII expenditures and manpower losses. Whereas India went straight to the basement among the economies of the world, alongside Communist China, on a per capita basis. The probably with South Asians collectively is bad political judgment. Great people individually, but the scum appears to rise to the top of their political establishments. We joke about our politicians being corrupt and incompetent, but we probably have municipal dogcatchers who could do a better job than the bums currently ruling India.

[Reily]

My use of the term “leading luminaries” was meant to be interpreted sarcastically not literally.

[firebrand]

MUMBIA WILL BE FREE!

[firebrand]

I have heard of people putting the legs of the bed in cans of oil. But they can drop from the ceiling when they get desperate.

[cornfedcowboy]

This was Air India. I trust the Western Hemisphere air carriers for the most part when it comes to infestations.

[cornfedcowboy]

Take your suitcase and place in the deep freeze for 3 days. The whole thing. Clothes and all. I travel for work and have experienced bed bugs more than once. Totally gross. Wifey won’t touch you for a week.

[Wuli]

I think the real story might be about Air India, and not Newark International Airport.

[njslim]

Here in New Jersey we have Roscoe the Bed Bug dog.....

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[OpusatFR]

“What did you do with your luggage?”

Vaccuum it and spray down with alcohol.

And be careful when you empty the vacuum. The little buggers are tough critters.

All my suggestions come straight from the pest company who nuked our home. The house was so hot, even the upstairs soapstone soap dish was too hot to handle. Everything that could be damaged was removed and treated. Oil paintings had to be removed because the air temperature inside the house would have damaged the oils.

Don't think you can use some over the counter remedy to kill the things. You can't. You can knock them back, but not eradicate them.

Alcohol sprayed on them desiccates them immediately, but the eggs can be in spaces you will never think of or treat.

[OpusatFR]

“Take your suitcase and place in the deep freeze for 3 days.”

We have a chest freezer and did that with everything from files to jewelry to objects that could not handle heat. We had to buy a freezer temperature gauge because, once again, the buggers are tough. If the freezer is not kept at or below zero for three days, they could survive.

I’m so completely freaked out after our experience, that I now understand my mother and our neighbors’ hypervigilance and cleanliness routines of the 1940s and 50s around the house. Monday, strip all the beds and wash everything. Turn the mattresses, beat the pillows etc. Tuesday clean and vacuum every square inch of floor and wall and baseboards.

It was an effort to keep pests at bay. My mother was born in 1910. She had direct experience with bedbugs that only ended with DDT.

Now they are back, and no one has a clue as to what it takes to fight them.

Bring back DDT!

[OpusatFR]

“But they can drop from the ceiling when they get desperate.”

They can survive for one year without feeding.

Talk about survivors.

[whistleduck]

My wife and I have opted for an RV. As she says, we have our own fleas not someone elses!

Beats the heck out of the airline world. Slow and easy. But comfortable with class. Just rather limited for an ocean crossing. Have to do that on the Queen Elizabeth some day.

[Windflier]

Several years ago I boarded a Pan Am flight at JFK...

That had to be more than several years ago. Pan Am went out of business in 1991.

[ScottfromNJ]

I flew Air India once and got free unlimited beers for the duration of the flight, unlike some of the American carriers who charge a fortune for drinks. I have no complaints about Air India.

[Deaf Smith]

13-14 months to starve out bedbugs.

Eggs removed from human/mammal presence can go dormant for 2.5 yrs. Abandoned rooms/homes, items in storage.

When back in presence, the eggs will continue to incubate where they left off.

[Zhang Fei]

[My use of the term “leading luminaries” was meant to be interpreted sarcastically not literally.]

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I was referring to economic advances due to decolonization. What is now Malaysia had been under foreign rule (Portuguese, Dutch, British) for over 4 centuries at the time the British left in 1957. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia#History Despite being composed of a lower IQ, on average, population, having been under foreign rule longer than India, and having fought for a decade a communist insurgency that went on into the late 1970’s, Malaysia’s GDP per capita in 1960, three years after independence was almost 4x India’s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_projected_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita#World_Bank_estimates_between_1960_and_1969 Given the additional decade under the white man’s heel, shouldn’t Malaysia have been worse off at independence in 1957 than India? What I believe to be the case is that, with a handful of exceptions, the native rulers in the former European colonies were adept at making up elaborate fictions blaming The Other (i.e. the white man) for their ineptness and corruption, and little else.

[Zhang Fei]

[I have heard of people putting the legs of the bed in cans of oil. But they can drop from the ceiling when they get desperate.]

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I think the idea is to get the bed bugs to travel through the minefield, i.e. layer upon layer of applied bug spray. That way, even if they bite you when you’re sleeping, they’re absorbed so much bug spray from dragging their bellies over the sprayed surfaces that they die before they can incubate and lay eggs creating even more bed bugs. When confronted with an impassable barrier, like a pool of oil, they’ll just go into hibernation, which they can do for 9 months or more.

[Bommer]

No true. Depending on the level of infestation, you can kill them all off in 2 weeks with Diatomaceous Earth. The Secret is that they love hiding in baseboard trim, so dust the hell out of it. It works when the bugs walk over it, the micro fine crystals slit up their body’s and they die out. I tried this when I had an infestation (ironically after getting a night stand and dresser from some Indian people) My wife would have little dots on her bac. Dusted the hell out of the bed, baseboard and rug. Left it for 2 week, vacuumed it up. No infestation. Safe for family and pets. Great for fleas and lice too.

[Deaf Smith]

Have no idea what you are calling No True.

FYI: Diatomacsous Earth is a Inhalation Hazard if you read the label.

[daniel1212]

Then there is, or was,

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