Direct flights between India and mainland China resume on Sunday after four years, with an IndiGo flight scheduled to take off from Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at 10 pm tonight. Airline services between the countries, except for the Chinese special administrative region of Hong Kong, had been halted since early 2020, just before COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic.

“The first flight is scheduled to leave Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at 10 pm today,” an official at the NSCBI airport told PTI.

Pieter Elbers, Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo, said in a press release, “We are delighted to announce the resumption daily, non-stop flights between India and mainland China. We are proud to be amongst the first to resume direct connectivity to

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