"Passengers Encounter Bedbug Infestation on Multiple Turkish Airlines Flights" !! Holy crap!

[A HERETIC I AM]

If you're planning a trip to Istanbul, avoid Turkish Airlines!

Looks like the airline is handling it really well.

On a separate October flight from Washington Dulles (IAD) to Istanbul about three weeks later, science teacher Kristin Bourgeois noticed bugs hidden within the provided blanket. After noticing another bug on her pillow, she realized the bugs were bedbugs. After reaching Istanbul roughly 10 hours later, Bourgeois found 13 bite marks on her torso.

When she reached out to Turkish Airlines to file a complaint, the airline demanded a doctor's medical report before it would investigate the incident. In addition, Bourgeois said that Turkish deleted her flight history from the airline app and offered 5,000 miles as compensation.

Underlining mine

Offering a 10% discount on future travel is absurd.


https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/passengers-encounter-bedbug-infestation-on-multiple-turkish-airlines-flights.php

[dalton99a]

1. "Bedbugs crawling on the seats and falling from the ceiling"

Great reason to fly Turkish

[magicarpet]

2. Turkish air should team up with trDUMP Hotels,...

.... that would be a ideal partnership.

[question everything]

3. Interesting that they are having many ads

[Ritabert]

4. Bedbugs are all over south Florida

We found some on sealed boxes at a self-storage unit. We steam cleaned the boxes and inspected everything stored inside. We check all mattresses in hotels before settling in.

[Solly Mack]

5. Fly the infested skies.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Their defense will be that these are Armenian bedbugs.

[LeftInTX]

11. LOL

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. Wait....WHAT?

Jeez! This type of post is over the top! A bed bug won't kill anyone like a Mesquito does.

That's a rather strange take on my post.

I put it up because it is an interesting and unusual story and also reflects the callous disregard for customers by a major company that is all too often displayed by large firms the world over.

I am relating a news story, nothing else. Sure, I added some editorializing, but I don't think it is any more "over the top" than any other story.

And for what it's worth, news items of various animals and bugs wreaking havoc on airplanes happen all the time.

Tarantulas on a plane;
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/20/spiders-tarantulas-cause-panic-canada-plane-dominican-republic

Flies swarm on a plane;
https://www.youtube.com/watch

[nilram]

9. I've noticed a lot more minimizing of people's posts here

than in the past. I've wondered if it's part of an effort to demoralize the dems, but sometimes it's from members with high post counts. Shrug.

[LeftInTX]

12. You take them home with you! And they're really hard to get rid of once they're in your home.

They get in your clothes and carry ons. And who knows, maybe in the baggage hold?

My son and his wife had them. It can cost alot of $$$$ to get rid of them.

[edhopper]

10. We had bedbugs

Extensive and exhausting effort to get rid of them
Get a bedbug proof mattress cover, they are less than $100. The bugs live in you mattress, because you are their food source. The cover stops them. It can save you potential thousands.

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. I used to travel away from home a lot more than I have been recently...

and stayed in hotels all over the place. I've been pretty lucky I suppose. I've been staying in hotels on an off all my life, and regularly as part of the jobs I've had since the late 1980's, but I have only had maybe 2 encounters in all that time. I had one specific bedbug episode that will live with me forever!

It was in a hotel in Chattanooga. I felt them crawling on me before I felt the itch of the bites. Using a plastic drinking cup I caught 2 or 3 of them on the bed and took them to the front desk at about 2 in the morning. I had a fairly early wake up (I really didn't sleep much after that) and got to the front desk to check out around 7:30. They had an exterminator waiting there for me to leave! The manager was all apologetic and offered me free lodging whenever I came back through town. Needless to say, I never went back.

I did get bitten in a couple different places and each one was 3 bites. The articles I read about them called that distinct pattern of bites "Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner"!! They frickin itched for days afterward.

I'm as careful as I can be when I am in a hotel these days. Never set my luggage on the floor, the bed or any furniture, only the countertops, check the mattress for evidence of them, etc.

I never really thought about a plane being infested though!

I read one of the reasons they seemed to go away for several decades and now they're more common is because DDT was used before and was very effective. But we all know how bad that shit turned out to be.

[edhopper]

14. The thing is

if every hotel and motel would put all the mattresses in a bedug cove, they could all but eliminate this threat. Compared to the cost if they do get an infestation, it's a bargain.

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. No doubt.

I feel pretty safe in the higher end brands, I must say. Never had an issue in a Marriott, Hilton or IHG property. But you're right, often the best solution is the simplest one.

[edhopper]

16. It has nothing to do with cleanliness

any hotel can get them from the guest before you.
When you check in, put your luggage in the bathroom and look at the seams along the bottom of the mattress. That is where they live.