"Direct connections between India and China were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic and never resumed until now. The announcement comes amid a thawing in relations between New Delhi and Beijing. Direct flights between the world's two most populous countries, India and China, are set to resume at the end of October for the first time in five years. India's leading airline IndiGo announced on Friday that it would be offering daily non-stop connections between Calcutta and Guangzhou from October 26."
"It has now been agreed that direct air services connecting designated points in India and China can resume by late October, read an Indian government statement released on Thursday. This agreement of the civil aviation authorities will further facilitate people-to-people contact between India and China, contributing towards the gradual normalization of bilateral exchanges. The announcement comes on the back of the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Shanghai at the end of August, his first trip to China in seven years."
"Indeed, opening bookings for its China flights on Friday, airline IndiGo said the move would reestablish avenues for cross-border trade and strategic business partnerships and promote tourism between the two nations. Relations between China and India collapsed in 2020 after troops from both sides clashed along a disputed border in the Himalayan mountains. Four Chinese soldiers and 20 Indian troops were killed in the worst violence between the two countries in decades."
Direct non-stop air services between India and China will resume at the end of October after a five-year suspension. IndiGo will operate daily Calcutta–Guangzhou flights from October 26, with a second New Delhi–China route planned. Indian civil aviation authorities agreed the resumption to facilitate people-to-people contact and gradual normalization of bilateral exchanges. Bookings opened with the airline citing renewed avenues for cross-border trade, strategic business partnerships, and tourism. The resumption follows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Shanghai and comes after relations collapsed in 2020 following deadly border clashes in the Himalayas.
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