{"id":650112,"date":"2025-10-27T12:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650112"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:14:04","slug":"india-china-air-travel-resumes-after-5-years-indigo-operates-kolkata-guangzhou-flight-first-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-china-air-travel-resumes-after-5-years-indigo-operates-kolkata-guangzhou-flight-first-since-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"India-China air travel resumes after 5 years: IndiGo operates Kolkata-Guangzhou flight; first since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Monica Liu lives and breathes Beijing, the &#8216;Tangra-style&#8217; Chinese restaurant that is the beating heart of weekends in Kolkata&#8217;s Chinatown. But on Sunday night, Guangzhou was on her mind. For the first time in five years, she was on a direct flight from the city she calls home to the country of her ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>Liu was among the first of 176 passengers to board IndiGo&#8217;s resurrected Kolkata-Guangzhou flight that bridged the gap in direct air connectivity between India and China, triggered by Covid pandemic and extended by the diplomatic frost following border clashes in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Monica Liu lives and breathes Beijing, the &#8216;Tangra-style&#8217; Chinese restaurant that is the beating heart of weekends in Kolkata&#8217;s Chinatown. But on Sunday night, Guangzhou was on her mind. For the first time in five years, she was on a direct flight from the city she calls home to the country of her ancestors. Liu was among the first of 176 passengers to board IndiGo&#8217;s resurrected Kolkata-Guangzhou flight that bridged the gap in direct air connectivity between India and China, triggered by Covid pandemic and extended by the diplomatic frost following border clashes in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}