The map display in the entertainment system of a Turkish airline flight brings quite a mess to the world map: Suddenly Los Angeles is in Europe.
What is the best way to pass the time on the plane? Listening to music, watching movies or listening to audiobooks are some of the most popular pastimes. However, it is always interesting to see which countries the aircraft is currently flying over – and how far it has already progressed on the route. For this purpose, a map display is usually available in the entertainment system on board. Unfortunately, a Turkish Airlines flight from Bangkok to Istanbul recently contained some curious errors, as one passenger noted.
Hopeless mess on the map: At Turkish Airlines, Los Angeles is no longer in the USA
Where is Los Angeles located? Apparently not on the west coast of the USA, if you want to trust the map display in question – but very close by, namely in the Netherlands. Bucharest is therefore also the capital of Iceland, not Reykjavík. And the Vietnamese metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City is located on the Turkish Riviera instead of the South China Sea. These are just three examples of destinations that have probably gotten completely confused – Chicago, Barcelona and Constanța have also strayed into the wrong places. After all, Helsinki, Glasgow and Moscow are where they belong.
As the industry portal Aerotelegraph has found out, the wrong cards were not an isolated case. In the Airbus A330, "the uploaded map content is not displayed correctly," a spokeswoman for Turkish Airlines confirmed. The airline has already teamed up with the software maker to fix the problem.
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"I should have booked Turkish Airlines!": Twitter users are amused by the map display
On Twitter, the erroneous ad causes a lot of amusement: "I would have really enjoyed the short bus ride from Los Angeles to Amsterdam a month ago, instead of the 24-hour ordeal by plane. I should have booked Turkish Airlines!" writes one user amused. "When I visit Europe, the first city on my list will be Los Angeles," another person said. Or: "It's unusually cold in Bucharest this year." So no one is really outraged about the "new world order" – at least everything is in the green zone, as long as the pilots in the cockpit are not shown the same errors in navigation, according to the opinion.