Here's What Happens When You Fly Tajikistan's National Airline 

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Thank you very much for a wonderful review! 🙏 We are always happy to see you onboard! ✈️

Tojikiston is a very beautiful country. the people are very kind, they respect their guests very much. Always kind of tourists. I recommend everyone to come to Tajikistan 🇹🇯🇹🇯🙏✌️👌

What a sweet and polite young man you found on this flight. As always another fun watch as you travel on the different airlines around the world.

17:19 Kid: "My name is Samir" Noel: "Oh Samuel, my son is called Samuel" 😂😂😂

How many times can you mention Tajikistan and Dushanbe. Noel: Yes

Very nice young man!! His English was wonderful! And Dushanbe does look amazing. Bucket list!

Just discovered that Uzbekistan Airlines has a transatlantic flight from Tashkent to New York. This seems like something Noel should try!

Fun fact, "Dushanbe" means Monday in Persian, and the "Du" is the number 2, because it's two days after Saturday, "Shanbe", the sabbath day in the Zororastrian tradition (whose calendar informed the Jewish calendar and its own shabbat). Since the 7th Century this area has been Muslim where the big day off is Friday, thus after Panjshanbe comes "Jumma", the Arabic word for Friday and the holiest day of the week in Islam. So linguistically two sabbaths, even though the Saturday one is no longer regarded as such in society.

@5:40 Those Tesco Clubcards are a damn sight more useful than I ever suspected and I must remember to take mine the next time I visit Tajikistan.

Omg never thought you are gonna review my country airline. Thanks

Shame there wasn't much footage of Tajikistan, just one quick outside shot and some night taxi footage. Would have loved to have seen more.

I love when we get videos of airlines I’ve not heard of! It sends me into a Google deep dive into the airline and try to learn everything about it.

Would absolutely love to visit Tajikistan! Thanks for showing us your flight on Somon Air.

Kid: My name is Samira. Noel: my son is called Samuel Kid: look of confusion 😂

Great video Noel love these 'off the beaten track' flights.

Almaty has best weather in most glorious nation of Kazakhstan. Jagsimash! Next time you go to Tajikistan you should try to fly from Dushanbe to Khorog. The flight goes through several narrow mountain passes at low altitude. Back in the USSR days Aeroflot used to pay the pilots triple wages on the flight because it was so dangerous.

I love this channel. There’s something soothing and enjoyable about a good ol Noel video at 5:22am.

I've flown from Istanbul to Dushanbe with Somon Air and I must admit I was very impressed too. You are right about the hostess uniforms - quite unusual but very classy. And Dushanbe is an amazingly clean and safe city. I enjoyed the video and great to see Somon getting a bit of publicity 😄😄

Not totally related to flying but some of my students at a Chinese medical university were from Tajikastan and very impressive young people and always stated I would be very welcome to their country.

Gorgeous views out of the plane windows! Also, beautiful architecture in this city! That was great to see! Thanks Noel!

I didnt know this place existed until today and I thought I knew geography well. TY for making me learn about another place!

You had the most gentlemanly seat mate of the year! Who needs IFE when you can have a chat with a pleasant fellow passenger?

The Somon Air B739’s look very impressive. I’ve only ever seen one and I think it was in FRA . Very enjoyable vlog as always.👍

Noel flys with airline's most people will never even hear of. Another great video as usual Noel.

What an amazing airline , I think it really puts SCAT to shame . Doing my homework on Dushambe. Thanks again great trip out

Would have liked to have seen the hotel room. The lobby looked very nice, I wonder how the room was. That little kid was awesome! Thanks Noel!

Welcome back once again Noel! So I can see that Somon Air's business class does look beautiful, and feels a bit more special than the economy class at least in my own perspective. Also, Tajikistan is overall a beautiful country with indeed some of the most beautiful architecture you've just showed me even for just a stay for one day. Also, did you just change your uploading habits from Sunday to a different day? Or is that just temporary for some reason? Anyhow, good that you still managed to upload a video this week once again Noel!

I know very little about Tajikistan, that was very interesting. The airport staff seemed very polite. Beautiful country. Amazing presentation with the food and I loved your seat companion, so polite and well spoken.

Love to see small airlines in obscure countries getting it right

You went to Tajikistan- wow! And the video was fantastic too.

Central asian countries have kind, welcoming people, BEAUTIFUL landscapes/nature and food is something else

Been loving your train vids. Idk what kind of time constraints you're under, but seeing the local area around be so cool 🤩

My day is not complete without your loo review, Noel! I love it; it's so funny!

Great video Noel, love these off the beaten track locations.👍 Good luck moving to the USA, now we expect more South American content as its only "down the road" from Houston.🤞

What a splendid video as always. The new seat mate actually made me smile, after I've had a bad day. So great. :)

Looking lovely and clean and modern these days. When we visited Tajikistan in the late 1990s the only direct flights in were via Mongolia. Instead, we had to fly in to Tashkent, Uzbekistan then drive across the border to Khujand then fly to Dushanbe. Taxiing out to the end of the runway when leaving Dushanbe they left the doors open until turn around for takeoff!!! Probably on one of the Tajik planes you saw across the runway.

Great video as always. I was intrigued by the Tesco Clubcard to get into the lift of the hotel at the start of your trip to Istanbul!!

They have GOT IT RIGHT... Thank You.

I was looking forward to this video since i spotted your flight confirmation during the SCAT video check-in :D

Well done as always Noel. Thank you for introducing me to a country and airline I was not aware of ! Great video once again.

The food you eat on airplanes always looks way better than the food I eat on a daily basis. 😆 I just want to say, thank you for all of the work you put into your videos and for doing what you do. I very rarely get the opportunity to travel and have only flown on airplanes a handful of times in my life. I adore your videos and always look forward to the next one. I hope you get the opportunity to come back to the U.S. and do some more domestic flights around the country and visit more states. I live in Nebraska - you've been here before (Alliance!). It would be great to have you come to the eastern part of the state. Wishing you and your family all the best!

Lovely vid Noel, thank you fella 🙏👍

What an amazing flight experience and a fantastic video as always.

Those flight attendant uniforms ARE quite impressive. I'm still rather more fond of the unis you see on Virgin Atlantic :)

As always, great video, Noel. My condolences to you and the British nation on the loss of the Queen. Where you at home or abroad when you got the news?

Love the video...watching w/ my new Kazakhstan Scat mug...Cheers!

Tajikistan is a beautiful country with wonderful hospitable people. You will be amazed at how much water and snow this country has.

Again a brilliant video, you introduce us all to new places to visit thank you

The absolute smoothest transition into an ad at 07:22 "do you fancy getting your hands on my socks... new ones, that is" 🤣

The little boy, adorable !!!!!! and with a very good English !!!!!

Another really interesting and varied video, already looking forward to the next one. Keep them coming Noel 👍

Such beautiful cities. 🥰💐. Loved that handsome young man on your flight. 💙💙

Been watching more and more vids on Dushanbe and Tajikistan. The city seems pretty lit! Would love to visit.

Got to go there next Noel...The Airline is cool and the country looks great...Mark

Such a great video- really enjoyed seeing your enthusiasm for Tajikistan- will definitely remember this recommendation and watch your video again!

Thanks for a good view of my country.

Thanks for that unexpected review Noel. Who could know without going there that Somon Air was going to be so good?

Great video as always, please do this kind of destination review more often! :)

great material as always Noel :) I encourage you to discover little known and exotic airlines, such as from Sudan or DRC. This is not on yt yet and would be very interesting ;)

Lovely T shirt in the Ridge ad!!

Always look forward to your videos. Always curious to see what airline you choose to travel on next

I remember flying Somon Air 4 times a year from Frankfurt to Dushanbe when i lived in Tajikistan from 2011-2015. Getting some flashbacks thanks Noel

Very impressed with that flight.

That little boy was the best!

Really interesting video. Keep up the good work

What a polite little boy...👍👍👍

Another winner. Always positive. Always a gentleman.

Hey baldandbankrupt! it's good to see you back on youtube.. cheers man!

I flew from Dushanbe to Istanbul in 2004, Tajik air business class (Tragic air) on an old soviet TU-154 so I don't want to hear any complaints about Somon's 737 fleet.

Ihave not fly on Tajiksitans National Airlines.Great work

Anybody else spot noel using a tesco club card in the lift or am I seeing summat? Great vids noel keep it up mate...

Agree on the livery. The flight attendants' uniforms are right up there with Emirates for classy presentation. Sparkly too.

Never knew a tesco club card can get you into a hotel room

Hey man, just wanted to say I was behind you at the Global entry interview line awhile ago in houston, just wanted to say love your videos!!

Your videos always hit the spot when you upload on a Sunday afternoon.🤪

I had never heard of Tajikistan or the airline. Looked fantastic, meal made me go for a snack, and the two flight attendants were -- stop that. I agree, would love to visit there. Is it far from Russia ? Not going there. I'll look into this place on the net, Thanks Noel. You always discover these amazing places ,some I've never heard of !

It looks an amazing and beautiful city

Thanks Noel. Great video as always. Out of interest, have you kept a log of all the different airlines you’ve travelled with?

That was a delightful video.

Almaty Airport the same as what I remember when I was there back in 2018! Can't wait to go back!

Anyone who doesn't know you Noel, just needs to watch that exchange between you and that 9 year old boy. You are the nicest bloke in the skies.

We all love Tajikistan, one of the most beautiful countries on planet Earth.

5:42 I love using my Tesco Club to get into my hotel room….😂

5:42 was that a Tesco Clubcard ? 😂 Great video as always!

Besides the entertainment the food looks good!

BORAT Noel such amazing places to visit Noel.........they look amazng indeed 252 countries........so you should not get stuck for places right best wishes Noel Vin

finallly new video yeah!!

Hey Noel, I've got an idea for the descriptions in future videos. I was thinking why not add the icao airport code into the description so people can replicate the flight on various flight simulator games

Thanks so much for this lovely video I love airlines that are not really popular but doing fantastic well inflight

Fantastic video Noel, Thank you! I have watched many of your travel adventures and all are superb, informative & entertaining. I so wish I could be like you and travel (especially on aircraft) as you do without a second thought, it looks so refreshing. For me I need days of cognitive thinking and ultimately doses of Valium, but hey that kinda works for me & gets me to places. I'm hoping watching your travels will help with my own challenges. I will add myself to your patreon pack... Thanks Noel.

Tajik Air is the national airline. I believe this one of private. Great video.

did he just use his Tesco Club card to open that door? 🤣

Ive seen dushanbe so many times on the moving map flying to Singapore it has a special place in my heart! Also flying over many places that you see on the news about the afghan war not so much....

What a fantastic flight to Istanbul! Very nice mate and dream landing.

Great vid Noel. Might have to put that place on my list.

5:42 That Tesco Clubcard though 😂😂😂

Superb as always

I had the entire English Rugby National Team, the Lions, on the same flight as me once, way back in 1988. The poor guys had to fly long haul in Economy after a tour of New Zealand.

I love the fact that you fly with airlines and go to places all over the world that aren't super known or big. have you ever flown to St. Helena before? from what i've seen it's a bucket list flight, would be really cool to see you do a video on that