IndiGo operates flights from Kolkata to Guangzhou and Delhi to Guangzhou.
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IndiGo airline on Monday (March 30, 2026) launched its each day flight from Shanghai to Kolkata boosting the air connectivity between India and China.
The IndiGo6E flight was launched by Indian Consulate General in Shanghai Pratik Mathur.
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Meeting the IndiGo administration group on the event, Mr. Mathur underlined the optimistic momentum, appreciated the rising confidence and enthusiasm being expressed by the booming air connectivity and the resurgent financial hyperlinks between India and the area, the Indian Consulate in Shanghai mentioned in a put up on X.
Indian airways akin to IndiGo and Air India have began connecting Shanghai with metro cities akin to New Delhi and Kolkata.
Kolkata is the second Indian metro after New Delhi now linked with Shanghai, China’s business capital.
Air China plans to launch a direct flight between Beijing and New Delhi on April 21, based on officers.
The new route linking Shanghai-Kolkata can be anticipated to push the event of India’s northeast, Mr. Mathur mentioned.
Kolkata and Shanghai historically take pleasure in very robust relations with Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore having visited the town thrice in 1913, 1923 and 1931, he mentioned.
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The new connectivity will additional encourage people-to-people ties between jap India and jap China, led by the 2 main cities Kolkata and Shanghai respectively, he mentioned.
India and China resumed flights between totally different cities of the 2 nations in October final yr after a five-year freeze in relations.
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IndiGo operates flights from Kolkata to Guangzhou and Delhi to Guangzhou.
Chinese airline China Eastern additionally resumed flight operations from Shanghai to Delhi.
The flight companies between the 2 sides had been suspended following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. They weren’t restored in view of the over-four-year border face-off in jap Ladakh, which resulted in October final yr.
The strategy of normalisation of India, China relations adopted two summits between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at Kazan in Russia in 2024 adopted by a second assembly on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tianjin final yr.
Besides flights, India and China have initiated a collection of measures to normalise their relations.
In July, India resumed granting vacationer visas to Chinese nationals.
Published – March 30, 2026 01:50 pm IST