K. Rammohan Naidu,Civil Aviation Minister,launched new facility Thursday letting transit passengers handle immigration at departure airport. Streamlines travel by skipping checks at transit stops, boosting connectivity for international travelers .
First service, run by Air India,kicked off at Varanasi airport. Naidu said in six weeks,program will cover six more airports. “All SOPs and systems are finalized; all stakeholders are on board,” he said at press briefing.
After Varanasi,next up are airports in Ahmedabad,Amritsar,Vadodara,Kochi,Mumbai,Hyderabad,Chennai,and Visakhapatnam. Campbell Wilson,Air India CEO,stressed how this boosts passenger convenience.
Naidu confident this will lift Indian airports to level of hubs like Singapore and Dubai. He called it a big day for Indian civil aviation,with high hopes for hub-and-spoke operations here. But can India really match those big players…?
