Constructing good quality fleet schedules is essential for an airline to operate in an effective and efficient way in order
to accomplish high levels of consumer satisfaction and to maximise profits. The robustness of an airline schedule is an indicative
measure of how good the schedule is because a robust plan allows the airline to cope with the unexpected disturbances which
normally occur on a daily basis. This paper describes a method to measure the robustness of schedules for aircraft fleet scheduling
within KLM Airlines. The method is based on the “Aircraft on Ground (ACOG)” measure, it employs statistical methods (although
alternative methods were also considered) and it is shown to provide a good estimation of the robustness of a given schedule.
Keywords modelling - airline scheduling - schedule quality measures