On November 29, 2020, the Etihad Airways announced that they were going to resume the passenger air route between Beijing and Abu Dhabi since December 7, 2020. The route will be operated once in a week for both directions and served by Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Passengers traveling to China by this flight are required to go through the COVID-19 PCR test and Serum IgM Antibody test within 96 hours before departure.

Previously, the Etihad Airways had resumed the air route between Shanghai and Abu Dhabi in late July, 2020. Currently, it is the only airline in Middle East and North Africa that runs the direct flights to Shanghai and Beijing.

At the end of November 2020, China Southern Airlines is about to open two new international flight routes, one between Nairobi Kenya and Shenzhen China, the other between Islamabad Pakistan and Wuhan China.

The flight between Shenzhen and Nairobi will start to operate as of November 27, 2020 and then regularly run on every Friday. Flight CZ8181 will take off at 0:05 from Shenzhen and arrive at 6:05, and the returning Flight CZ8182 will depart at 15:25 and arrive at 8:05 the following day.

The flight between Wuhan and Islamabad will start to operate since November 30, 2020 and later regularly run on every Monday. The Flight CZ8139 will depart from Wuhan at 8:30 and land in Islamabad at 11:45. In the opposite direction, the Flight CZ8140 will fly at 13:00 and land at 21:45. All timings refer to the local time.