{"id":38805,"date":"2025-11-17T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/indian-airline-to-resume-flights-to-mainland-china-after-nearly-six-year-hiatus\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:31:29","slug":"indian-airline-to-resume-flights-to-mainland-china-after-nearly-six-year-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/indian-airline-to-resume-flights-to-mainland-china-after-nearly-six-year-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian airline to resume flights to mainland China after nearly six-year hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India will resume direct flights between New Delhi and Shanghai from February 1, 2026, returning to mainland China after nearly six years. This comes amid a de-escalation of ties between New Delhi and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F11%2F17%2F1763396532-1812-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Indian airline to resume flights to mainland China after nearly six-year hiatus\"\/><\/p>\n<p>India&#039;s national airline, Air India, will resume flights to China from February next year, almost six years after their suspension, amid a de-escalation of ties between New Delhi and Beijing. This was stated in a company statement, writes UNN.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From February 1, 2026, Air India will resume direct flights between New Delhi and Shanghai, returning to mainland China almost six years later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the report says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shanghai will become the 48th international point served by the Air India Group, which continues to carry more passengers on international flights than any other airline in India.<\/p>\n<p>Air India will operate flights between Delhi and Shanghai four times a week on twin-engine Boeing 787-8 aircraft, which are equipped with 18 beds in business class and 238 spacious seats in economy class.<\/p>\n<p>The resumption of Air India flights to Shanghai follows recent Indo-Chinese diplomatic arrangements that restored air links suspended in early 2020. Air India first launched direct flights to mainland China in October 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell Wilson, CEO and Managing Director of Air India, said: &quot;The resumption of our Delhi-Shanghai flights is more than just a route launch. It is a bridge between two great, ancient civilizations and modern economic powers. At Air India, we are delighted to resume one of the world&#039;s most important air links, providing travelers with the opportunity to develop business, trade, healthcare, education and cultural contacts with comfort and the warm Indian hospitality that defines Air India.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>India and Russia signed an agreement on joint production of passenger aircraft28.10.25, 14:48 \u2022 2833 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India will resume direct flights between New Delhi and Shanghai from February 1, 2026, returning to mainland China after nearly six years. This comes amid a de-escalation of ties between New Delhi and Beijing. India&#039;s national airline, Air India, will resume flights to China from February next year, almost six years after their suspension, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}