Monica Liu, an Indian citizen and entrepreneur with origins from China, prepares to depart for Guangzhou, from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on October 26, 2025. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP)
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.
