A passenger who travelled business class in Air India’s Newark-Mumbai flight with her three children last week has complained of bedbug bites which she reportedly suffered in the flight.

Saumya Shetty took to Twitter and posted a photograph of her arm covered with what she explained as bedbug bites.

It was reported last week that a baby was allegedly bitten by bed bugs on the same flight, leaving other passengers agitated and delaying the flight’s onward journey to Delhi.

Saumya Shetty has alleged that despite her complaint to the flight staff, she was forced to stay on the same seat. Her seat was changed only a short while before landing in Mumbai.

“Covered in painful bedbug bites all over my body thanks to business class of #AirIndia is this what you charge for?i only got moved to another seat in the morning when we were landing, it was disgusting! Mind you I was traveling with 3 kids,” Shetty said in a tweet.

Covered in painful bedbug bites all over my body thanks to business class of #AirIndia is this what you charge for?i only got moved to another seat in the morning when we were landing, it was disgusting! Mind you I was traveling with 3 kids. @timesofindia @mid_day

— Saumya Shetty (@saumshetty) July 19, 2018

“Traveled business class thinking it would help with three kids. I’m covered with bed bugs bites and it’s been a painful day so far,” she added.

Another passenger Pravin Tonsekar had also 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 tweeted. He had tagged the airline and the Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu.

In a second tweet, he said that his “wife and daughters had to suffer half of the journey sitting in economy seats with broken tables and inoperative TV”.

The airline, in its reply, tweeted, “We are sorry to hear this, Mr Pravin. Sharing the details with our maintenance team for corrective measures in this regard.”

A comment from the Air India spokesperson was awaited.

In August last year, a rat was spotted on Air India’s Delhi-San Francisco flight, one of the longest flights in the world, forcing the flight to depart after a nine-hour delay.

Over 200 passengers were on board. After taking the aircraft to the parking bay, it was fumigated and this exercise took about six hours.

(With agency inputs)