BOSTON (WHDH) – Passengers aren’t the only ones running through the Boston Logan International Airport. Mice are scurrying around too!
“I saw at least, maybe, five or six,” said Trina who flew out of Logan. “They just run around.”
Trina spotted the critters scurrying in Terminal B at Logan this summer after she missed a connecting flight.
“I was just shocked by the level of rodents,” she said. “I just immediately started calling the airlines trying to get any flight and get the heck out of there because I was like I am not staying the night in this airport.”
She’s not the only passenger alarmed by the mice.
Multiple travelers have captured rodents peeking out from walls, running under people’s feet and even fighting for food right in the open.
“I was freaked out. I’m like, ‘What the hell?” said Massachusetts resident Desmond Kaplan.
Kaplan is a frequent flier out of the Logan airport and said he spots the pests all the time. Last month he videotaped mice running under the chairs in Terminal B.
“You would sit there long enough and they would come up to you … it was bad,” he remembered. “You were seeing them run all up and down the hallway. Near the restaurants; everywhere.”
7 Investigates first highlighted the issue of mice at the airport in 2022. At the time, the airport received 76 complaints related to the rodents in three years. Since then, 7 Investigates found 91 complaints were reported.
Now passengers are concerned about rodents near the airport restaurants.
“I was mostly thinking, oh my god I just ate at this airport,” Trina said.
Kaplan said he avoids eating at the airport.
7 Investigates found since 2023, nine airports have failed health inspection due to rodents.
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