AMRITSAR, July 29 -- Air India on Tuesday launched its Easy Connect services from Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, Amritsar, expanding the central government's hub-and-spoke aviation model and bringing hassle-free international connectivity closer to travellers across Punjab.

Punjab has now been connected with 27 global destinations across North America, the UK, Europe and Australia under the hub-and-spoke model.

Inaugurating the service virtually, Union civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu said statistics show that approximately 1,50,000 passengers travel from Amritsar to Delhi every year to catch international flights. Similarly, about 150,000 passengers arrive in Delhi from abroad and then travel to Amritsar....