New Delhi: As India-China relations continue to improve, Air China has restarted direct flights on the Beijing-New Delhi route after a gap of almost six years. The service will operate on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday every week using Airbus A330-200/300 aircraft.
Direct flights between the two countries were halted in 2020 during COVID-19 and remained suspended amid breakdown in ties following the Galwan Valley clash in June 2020, which resulted in casualties on both sides.
As of now, India-China connectivity involves around 20 direct flights a week compared to over 40 weekly flights before 2020. These include, apart from Air China’s three weekly flights now, IndiGo’s daily Kolkata-Shanghai and Delhi-Guangzhou services, started in the last six months, and China Eastern Airlines’ six weekly Kunming-Kolkata flights that were resumed this week.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had visited China in July 2025, for the first time in five years, to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Tianjin, and the subject of resumption of flights, along with border management and trade, was discussed.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi then visited Tianjin in August 2025 for the SCO Summit—his first visit to China in over seven years—and met President Xi Jinping, signalling a massive improvement in India-China ties.
23/04/2026 Esha Mishra/Print
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