Turkmenistan Airlines will open a direct flight on the route Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) — Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) two months later than the originally planned date — in April instead of February 2020. This was reported by the official website of the Turkmenhovayollary Agency.

The passenger flight is planned to be carried out on a Boeing 777-200LR long-range aircraft. Turkmen pilots plan to use the advantageous geographical location of Ashgabat Airport to organize transit air transportation of tourists traveling to religious shrines from Southeast Asia and back.