ROANOKE, Va. — Here’s a travel nightmare you don’t hear about every day: a family vacation derailed not by delayed luggage or a missed connection, but by bed bugs crawling on passengers mid-flight. The Albuquerque family from Roanoke is now suing Delta Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for $200,000, claiming they were bitten repeatedly by the insects during their journey to Serbia. According to a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia Roanoke Division, what started as an uneventful departure from Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport quickly turned into something out of a horror movie once the family boarded their second flight.
When the Bugs Came Out
The trouble began about two hours into the…..