On 18th of June, RwandAir, the national airline of Rwanda,launched a fifth-freedom route between Mumbai, India, and Guangzhou, China. RwandAir will be the only airline offering direct services between India’s largest and China’s third largest cities by population size.

Flights to Guangzhou will operate three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. They will be operated by one of the airline’s Airbus A330s.

The outbound flight (WB 500) is set to leave Kigali (KGL) at 00:40, arriving in Mumbai (BOM) at 11:30, same day, local time. The leg to Guangzhou (CAN) leaves one hour and ten minutes later, arriving the same day at 21:30 local time.

On the return (WB 501), the CAN-BOM flight departs at 23:20 arriving at 2:50 the next day. The BOM-KGL leg departs Mumbai at 04:15 and touches down in Kigali at 7:30, same day, local time.