India’s Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said on Thursday ( 12 ) that India and China discussed the possibility of their air travel to resume between their two nations.
China was reportedly pressing India to resume clear customer planes, according to a Reuters report in June, but New Delhi was opposing as a boundary stand-off continues to impede ties between the Eastern competitors.
Relations between the nuclear-armed neighborhood, who share a mostly undemarcated Alpine border, have been strained since a defense fight on their Himalayan border in 2020 killed 20 Indian and four Chinese men.
Although strong cargo flights continue to link the world’s two most popular countries, India has tightened investigation of Chinese investments, banned hundreds of famous apps, and severed passenger air routes.
On the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Civil Aviation in New Delhi, Kinjarapu said he had a conversation with Song Zhiyong, the mind of China’s legal aviation management.
Naidu and Naidu discussed “further strengthening civil aircraft cooperation between the two countries, mainly by encouraging the first continuation of scheduled passenger planes,” Naidu wrote in a blog on X.
The stakes are higher for China, where the recovery in journey after the COVID-19 crisis has not been as positive as India’s flourishing aviation sector, but resuming strong flights would benefit both nations.