India's civil aviation ministry joint secretary, Arun Kumar, is hoping that World Routes 2016 can be the catalyst to unlock more open skies agreements with countries across Europe. Speaking on the third day of the conference in Chengdu, China, he revealed that following an open skies agreement with Greece, India saw the event as the ideal platform to create more.

Following a hugely successful opening day, World Routes 2016 was fully in swing as it entered its second, with a full-day tourism summit taking centre stage.

The hotly-anticipated World Routes 2016 began today, gathering thousands of key personnel from the aviation industry for three days of meetings, networking, con