New Delhi: For the first time for Post Covid, direct flights will finally resume between India and China very soon. Sources say that the Chinese carriers can resume “from tomorrow”, before doing so the Indian carrier needs to do some work. So India proposed to resume flights when the airlines of both sides are able to do so, which should not take “too much time” and can be within a month or a month.“The Air Services Agreement (ASA or bilateral) between India and China is to be revised. It may have a dialogue. But the issue is that we wait for ASA to revise or resume flights under existing bilaterals. Sources said later. Impact can be announced when PM Modi visits Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit later this month.
“Chinese carriers may start flights as soon as possible as a decision. Indian carriers, IndiGo and Air India, have been given some operational issues such as their pre-coveed slots at Chinese airports.The Indian carriers are waiting for the government’s policy on their behalf, on China’s flights. “We feel that flights will start again and are waiting for the structure for it, whether it is modified or under existing bilateral. We have to re -apply for all permissions and beliefs, ”said senior officials of the Indian carrier.In 2019, India and China had 539 straight flights run by Airlines including Air India, Indigo, China southern and China Eastern. In March 2020, international flights were stopped during Kovid. In June 2020, a clash of the Galwan Valley sent relations between the two countries in a deep chill.Now US President Trump has melted the threat of tariff standing on India and China in those relations. Flight connectivity directly with tourist visas will be restored soon.Traveling between India and China since 2020 means doing so through the third country, mostly in Southeast Asia.
