{"id":650459,"date":"2025-10-29T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650459"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:57:39","slug":"kolkata-calling-guangzhou-after-5-years-1st-direct-flight-to-china-family-trips-biz-visits-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-calling-guangzhou-after-5-years-1st-direct-flight-to-china-family-trips-biz-visits-take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata calling Guangzhou: After 5 years, 1st direct flight to China; family trips, biz visits take off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The city got back its flight connectivity to China on Sunday as IndiGo&#8217;s Kolkata-Guangzhou direct flight took off. Kolkata to China flights were discontinued in the backdrop of Covid and border clashes five years ago. The A32 Neo carried 176 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>IndiGo&#8217;s Delhi-Guangzhou flight is likely to start on Nov 10 and China Eastern Airlines is set to resume its Shanghai-Delhi operations on Nov 9. The decision to resume the flights follows the govt&#8217;s decision to reopen tourist visa facilities for Chinese nationals earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The city got back its flight connectivity to China on Sunday as IndiGo&#8217;s Kolkata-Guangzhou direct flight took off. Kolkata to China flights were discontinued in the backdrop of Covid and border clashes five years ago. The A32 Neo carried 176 passengers. IndiGo&#8217;s Delhi-Guangzhou flight is likely to start on Nov 10 and China Eastern Airlines is set to resume its Shanghai-Delhi operations on Nov 9. The decision to resume the flights follows the govt&#8217;s decision to reopen tourist visa facilities for Chinese nationals earlier this year.<\/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-650459","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\/650459","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=650459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}