Air China resumes this Tuesday, 20th, the direct route between Beijing and New Delhi, reinforcing the recovery of air links between China and India, interrupted for years by bilateral tensions and the covid-19 pandemic.
The connection, which once again directly links the capitals of the two most populous countries in the world, will be operated three times a week – on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays – with Airbus A330 planes, reported the official Global Times newspaper.
The resumption of this route is part of the reestablishment of direct flights between the two countries, which resumed in October 2025 after five years of suspension, following the bilateral crisis triggered by the 2020 military confrontation in the Galwan Valley and the pandemic.
The reestablishment of air connectivity marked one of the main signs of detente between Beijing and New Delhi, translated in the following months into the reopening of border trade, the resumption of visa issuance and the reactivation of diplomatic and military contacts.
So far, this normalization has advanced with other routes, such as the resumption on Saturday by China Eastern Airlines between Kunming, capital of the Chinese province of Yunnan, and the Indian city of Calcutta.
The same company had already reestablished the connection between Shanghai and New Delhi in November 2025, now operating six weekly round-trip flights between Kunming and Calcutta, according to the same newspaper.
The increase in frequencies by Chinese carriers also coincides with new movements by Indian companies.
IndiGo announced in March the opening of a daily direct route between Kolkata and Shanghai, inaugurated on the 29th of that month, after having previously resumed the connection between Kolkata and Guangzhou and launched a route between New Delhi and Guangzhou.
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