Mumbai airport network outage prompts manual processing

A network disruption at Mumbai airport on Tuesday evening prompted staff to switch to manual processing, while airport operator Mumbai International Airport Ltd said essential services continued and flight operations were not affected. Flight-tracking data showed an average departure delay of 50 minutes at the airport and 327 delayed flights by about 9:30 p.m. The same data put cancellations at 13 percent of flights. The figures cover airport-wide traffic and do not establish how many delays or cancellations were directly caused by the network problem. MIAL said the temporary disruption occurred Tuesday evening and that teams introduced manual procedures to maintain essential airport operations and minimise inconvenience to passengers. The operator did not specify how long the network problem lasted. Reports citing airport sources placed the start of flight effects at about 7:05 p.m. One account said the disruption lasted approximately 50 minutes, while other reports described it as lasting more than an hour. MIAL did not provide a duration, so the length of the outage could not be established from its statement. Accounts of the airport’s immediate response said staff moved...