In order to further enhance the culture of passenger service in the era of the Revival of a new epoch of a powerful state, increase the number of airlines, ensure flight safety, as well as successfully solve the tasks for the development of the air transport sector outlined in the “Program of the President of Turkmenistan for socio-economic development of the country for 2019-2025”, the President of Turkmenistan signed a Resolution, having allowed Türkmenhowaýollary Agency of Transport and Communications Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers to conclude with Gündogdy IE a contract for the design and construction of an international airport complex in Jebel village of Balkan velayat, designed to serve 100 passengers per hour, with landscaping of the adjacent territory and with the condition of construction of highways leading to the complex, as well as external supply engineering systems and objects of communication, electricity, gas, water supply and sewerage with their connection to the common network.

The document prescribes to begin construction work in July 2022 and to hand over the facility in full readiness for operation in December 2024.