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India & China likely to resume direct flights within weeks: Report
An Air India Airbus A321 aircraft takes off at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, India, on June 17, 2025. Reuters File
India and China are expected to resume direct flights within weeks, according to reports.
Direct flights between India and China were suspended in early 2020 with the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Weeks later, Chinese troops mounted incursions into the Indian Himalayas and resultant skirmishes, which came to a boil in June 2020 when Chinese soldiers attacked and killed 20 Indian soldiers, plunged the India-China relationships to the lowest point since 1962 when the two countries fought a war. Flights were therefore never resumed.
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Bloomberg on Tuesday reported that India and China are set to resume direct flights as soon as next month and the announcement could be made on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit at the end of August in China.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the SCO Summit for the first time since the India-China relationship nosedived in 2020.
The report further said that the Indian government has asked airlines to prepare flights to China at short notice.
This is a developing story. It will be updated as details emerge.
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