Two Mumbai airport officials suspended over fudging on-time data

The finding gives weight to IndiGo's claim, which raised questions over computation of its OTP data

Mumbai airport has suspended two executives after a probe found alleged discrepancies in measurement of on-time performances of airlines.

IndiGo's had raised questions about OTP computation and complained to regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that the process was prone to fudging. A probe found that pushback time of 10 flights in December and 12 flights in November was recorded incorrectly in the airport operations’ database, thereby affecting the on-time performance of these flights, Mial's deputy general manager Rajesh Bobde wrote to DGCA. Mial is Mumbai International Airport Limited, a GVK group-led consortium that operates the Mumbai airport. In pushback,