A passenger in Varanasi will soon be able to board a flight to Delhi and connect seamlessly to London, with immigration cleared at departure and baggage transferred without stepping out of the airside. That is the promise of India's Hub-and-Spoke aviation model, and Air India is expected to begin its first trials from Varanasi airport on June 1.
The civil aviation ministry has issued a Standard Operating Procedure to operationalise the model, which is designed to connect passengers from smaller spoke airports to international destinations through larger hub airports, smoothly and without the friction that currently makes such journeys cumbersome.
Under the Hub and Spoke framework, Domestic to International and International to Domestic operations will be streamlined for passengers, covering immigration, customs and baggage transfers. The SOP, dated April 27, makes the process clear: "Immigration and Customs clearance to the passengers would be carried out at the first port of departure and last port of arrival with airside baggage transfer at hub airport."
Passengers on Hub and Spoke flights will receive two boarding passes — one marked 'I' for international and one marked 'D' for domestic — to allow easy identification and segregation of traffic at hub airports.
30/04/2026 Business Today
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