BEIJING: India and China plan to resume direct flights between some of their cities after a five-year suspension as the relations between the two countries begin to thaw, Indian authorities announced Thursday. Direct flights between the two countries were suspended during the Covid pandemic in 2020 and did not resume as Beijing and New Delhi engaged in prolonged border tensions. Flights between designated cities will resume by late October subject to commercial carriers’ decisions, India’s embassy to China said in a post on social media platform WeChat.

India and China to resume direct flights in October 2025 after a five-year suspension, facilitating bilateral exchanges.

India's IndiGo airline said that it would restart direct flights between Kolkata and Guangzhou from 26 October.

BEIJING: India and China plan to resume direct flights between some of their cities after a five-year suspension as the relations between the two countries begin to thaw, Indian…

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Services between major cities will restart later this month, ending five-year suspension between world’s two most populous countries.

Passenger flights between India and China were suspended after the COVID-19 pandemic and never resumed following border clashes in 2020.

NEW DELHI: India is set to resume direct flights with China in late October, its foreign ministry said, with no commercial airlines having operated between the world’s two most…

India and China to resume flights after five years, with IndiGo and Air India planning new routes.