First China-India direct commercial flight in over 5 years lands in Guangzhou

The first direct commercial flight between mainland China and India in over five years landed in Guangzhou on Monday morning, airport information showed, a symbolic step in cautiously warming ties between the world’s two most populous nations.

IndiGo flight 6E1703 from Kolkata touched down in the southern Chinese city shortly before 4:00 am (2000 GMT), officially resuming nonstop air links that had been suspended since 2020 due to the pandemic and subsequent geopolitical tensions.