SpiceJet opposes regulator's move to review on time performance

Airline executives to meet the Director General of Civil Aviation on Tuesday

SpiceJet is going to protest to the aviation regulator on the latter’s decision to re-measure the punctuality statistics.

Its executives will meet B S Bhullar, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Tuesday in this regard.

SpiceJet recently gave full-page advertisements in the print media, claiming to be the best airline in terms of punctuality.

However, market leader IndiGo contended the process of computation was prone to fudging. It wrote to the DGCA’s office that there was an inconsistency between the On-Time Performance (OTP) data from the Mumbai airport and that from Airport Collaborative Decision Making. The latter is