Air India to add inbound Easy Connect transfers to Amritsar via Delhi
Air India plans to launch inbound hub-and-spoke transfers to Amritsar within two months, enabling international passengers to clear immigration and collect baggage at their final destination. The carrier is also expanding outbound connections and targeting Ahmedabad, Goa and Kochi for further rollout.
What happened
Air India will introduce inbound Easy Connect hub-and-spoke transfers to Amritsar via Delhi, allowing immigration and baggage collection at the final
Key facts
- Inbound Easy Connect service expected within 2 months
- Around 900 weekly Air India Group flights
- Around 500 weekly Air India flights
- 4 hub airports and 40 spoke airports planned
- Nearly 25 million annual long-haul passengers to/from India
- Close to 20 million connecting travellers
- Approximately 17 million passengers transit through overseas hubs
Why this matters
Travel, hospitality and retail groups can pursue partnerships around Air India’s new Delhi-Amritsar transfer flow while assessing similar opportunities in Ahmedabad, Goa and Kochi.
What to watch
- Formal launch date and the list of international flights eligible for Easy Connect to Amritsar.
- Connection-time thresholds, through-check-in availability and whether baggage is delivered at Amritsar as advertised.
- Monthly international passenger traffic, seat capacity and load factors on Delhi-Amritsar flights.
- Immigration and baggage-processing wait times, missed-connection rates and customer-service complaints after launch.
- New Air India frequencies, widebody route additions or codeshare feed into Delhi.
- Hotel occupancy, average daily rates and tourist spending indicators in Amritsar during the first two peak travel periods.
- Announcement of Easy Connect deployment at Ahmedabad, Goa or Kochi.
- Air India to publish eligible international origin markets, connection windows, fare rules and baggage-transfer details for Amritsar.
- Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport and ground handlers to expand immigration, baggage, customs and passenger-processing capacity.
- Amritsar hotels, tour operators and retailers to package airport-transfer, pilgrimage, heritage and shopping offers for diaspora and international visitors.
- Air India to prioritize Easy Connect rollout in Ahmedabad, Goa and Kochi if Amritsar transfer volumes and on-time performance meet targets.
- Travel platforms to increase Amritsar international itinerary inventory and dynamic hotel-plus-flight bundling.