“We sincerely apologize to customers for the cancellation of Saturday’s Rome-to-Perth service, which allowed our engineers and maintenance teams to carry out a deep clean of the aircraft after an issue [was] identified on a small number of economy seats,”

Qantas Airways Limited · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-17

Qantas apologized for canceling a Rome-to-Perth flight to allow engineers to deep clean the aircraft after bedbugs were found in economy seats.