SURREAL TURKMENISTAN AIRLINES - BIZARRE GHOST PLANE AND AIRPORT!

Am I only turkmen who will watch this video? i didn't watched it yet because I have no time now but will when I find spare time. hopefully our people welcomed you well because guest are highly honored in our culture

Hi Josh!
Great video.
By the way, the chocolate bar (Bykit) inside the lunch box is made in Iran (Shoniz Co.) 🤓🇮🇷

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Way to loud

Where were the other passengers while you were at the waiting lounge?

Reminds you of North Korea in many ways

I flew from London Gatwick to Detroit Metro on a Northwest DC-10, circa 2003, connecting flight from Metro to Toronto Pearson on a DC-9. The LGW to DTW flight arrived incredibly early, the American immigration were, well, themselves. Most mirserable, arrogant people I have ever come across anywhere in the world. However, the Northwest staff were incredible, they held an early departing connecting flight to YYZ for me... I boarded the DC-9 and it was EMPTY! There was one other passenger, on the flight. I could sit where ever I wanted and a beautiful Northwest stewardess sat and talked with me for almost the entire flight. Northwest, superb.

No wonder that the Planes from Turkmenistan are so good looking, because almost nobody using these planes........but the Airport is looking absolute beautiful !

As if the nearly empty huge airport wasn't enough, it's even more bizarre that their London flights go to Stansted and not Heathrow! Their impressive airport was built by Turkish construction company Polimeks, costing over two billion dollars. The tribal carpet patterns (‘Carpet Gul’) located on the roof of the main terminal building, which are the symbols of the five provinces of Turkmenistan, registered by Guinness as the ‘Largest Gul in the World’ record. The building is in the shape of a giant falcon, another symbol of the country, and echoing the logo of Turkmenistan Airlines.

Besides Ashgabat, Turkmenistan is also famous for the Darvaza Crater, a crater located in Ahal Province that has been continuously burning since 1971. The story goes that Soviet engineers were drilling in the area as an oil field when it collapsed within days, forming the crater, with the engineers choosing to flare the crater to prevent emission of poisonous gases but underestimating the volume of the gas.

Such a beautiful airport! Turkmenistan is one of my favorite flags because while I typically like a simpler flag, I make an exception for certain flags that look cool because of it being more complex, and Turkmenistan is one of them. There are five stars on the Turkmen flag to represent both the five regions of the country (Ahal, Lebap, Mary, Balkan, and Daşoguz) and the Five Pillars of Islam. A carpet is on the hoist side to signify the historic Turkmen carpet industry. There are five different designs for the five major Turkmen tribes, which from top to bottom are the Teke, Yomut, Saryk, Chowdur, and Ersari. The olive branches at the bottom were added in 1997 to represent peace as Turkmenistan became a neutral country in 1995.

Besides former president Gurbanguly, their first president Saparmurat Niyazov or as he called himself Turkmenbashi was just as weird! He almost built an ice palace with penguins in the middle of a desert, built only one hospital in the country to make people go to the capital, ordered all libraries outside the capital to shut down, renamed months after his family, and named a city after himself. He made people read his book the Ruhnama, basically his book of opinions that all Turkmen had to agree with. If you want to drive, you had to pass a test about the Ruhnama. He even had a golden statue of himself that rotated so that it would ALWAYS face the Sun, to symbolize that his age was the golden age! Yeah, he was insane.

You are Brit ? You need to make a doc on Brit airways one of the worst airlines in the world

Airport guy sound like the Borat!

I just love Airlines like this! Thank u for the look inside❤❤!!

Turkmenistan Airlines proper

The restroom looks clean maybe because not many people use it. Only 30 people on that flight with you.

Ten years. 30 passengers per flight. Probably less than 100,000 passengers have flown that plane.

Josh Cahill, Proud citizen off Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

I have noticed, however, despite how remote and isolated these countries are.. the airports seem to be very newish.. It isn't like you ever fly into some one terminal 1950s erra building... they all look very futuristic and "modern".... I wonder where a lot of these countries got the funding for modernization...?? and it looked like the country had several planes... so they OWN the airline?...

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