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Been to a few weird ones in the developing world but for some reason TRR seemed to pop into my mind when I saw this thread. TRR - China Bay Airport near Trincomalee in NE Sri Lanka. ~2013, so not too long after the civil war ended and tourism in the Tamil areas was still in its infancy. The Sri Lankan air force was operating civilian flights (perhaps still are??) on a Xian MA60 from the old Colombo airport Ratmalana (RML) to TRR. They made the young air force recruits create hand-written boarding passes and a couple of cute females in uniform got to play at being flight attendants and even handed out bags of lollies on the flight. Was a great experience. The vintage Ratmalana airport terminal seemed to be untouched since the 60s, was like a museum - also good fun! [ATTACH=full]322309[/ATTACH]

[QUOTE="randompunter, post: 2525028, member: 58435"] Been to a few weird ones in the developing world but for some reason TRR seemed to pop into my mind when I saw this thread. TRR - China Bay Airport near Trincomalee in NE Sri Lanka. ~2013, so not too long after the civil war ended and tourism in the Tamil areas was still in its infancy. The Sri Lankan air force was operating civilian flights (perhaps still are??) on a Xian MA60 from the old Colombo airport Ratmalana (RML) to TRR. They made the young air force recruits create hand-written boarding passes and a couple of cute females in uniform got to play at being flight attendants and even handed out bags of lollies on the flight. Was a great experience. The vintage Ratmalana airport terminal seemed to be untouched since the 60s, was like a museum - also good fun! [ATTACH type="full"]322309[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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