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Guangzhou-Delhi flight: Guangzhou-Delhi flights to resume after a six-year suspension

  China Southern Airlines announced on Saturday that it will resume regular passenger services on the Guangzhou-New Delhi route starting September 21, marking the return of the service after a six-year suspension. The carrier stated that with this resumption, the airline will operate over 100 flights per week across eight round-trip routes in South Asia.

Headquartered in Guangzhou, in China's southern Guangdong province, China Southern Airlines is one of the country's major carriers. The carrier's announcement coincides with Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to India on Saturday to attend the BRICS summit and hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on further improving bilateral relations. Flight services between India and China were suspended following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and were not restored during the military standoff between the two nations in Eastern Ladakh—which lasted over four years and concluded in October last year.

The resumption of flights is part of the gradual normalization of India-China relations following two meetings between Modi and Xi in 2024 and 2025. Modi and Xi met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, in October 2024, followed by another meeting during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin in 2025.

Following the improvement in relations, several Chinese and Indian airlines resumed flight services between cities in both countries, including the Beijing-New Delhi route. In March of this year, IndiGo launched a daily flight between Shanghai and Kolkata, further improving air connectivity between India and China.
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