As ties between China and India seem to be warming up, direct flights between the two nations have resumed.
With roughly 180 passengers, IndiGo aircraft 6E 1703 from Kolkata touched down in Guangzhou, a city in southern China, on Monday.
After a tragic confrontation in a disputed Himalayan border area intensified tensions, flights between the two countries were first banned during the Covid epidemic in early 2020 and were never resumed.
However, ties between the two nations have been gradually improving, and last year they came to a historic border patrol deal.
For the first time in seven years, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to China in August. Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, travelled to India in the same month.

The restart of flights would "facilitate people-to-people contact" and aid in "the gradual normalisation of bilateral exchanges," according to the Indian government.
Additionally, India started issuing Chinese tourists visas again.