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BEIJING (AP) — 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.
The resumption is part of the Indian government’s “approach
towards gradual normalization of relations between India and
China,” the embassy added.
India’s largest carrier IndiGo announced Thursday it would
resume flights from Kolkata, India, to Guangzhou, China,
beginning Oct. 26.
The resumption comes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
visited China last month for the first time in seven years to
attend a regional security forum, which was part of efforts by
the two countries to normalize ties.
Relations between China and India plummeted in 2020 after
security forces clashed along a disputed border in the Himalayan
mountains. Four Chinese soldiers and 20 Indian soldiers were
killed in the worst violence in decades, freezing high-level
political engagements.
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