Schedule

Integrated operational and maintenance planning — fleet scheduling, maintenance forecast, hangar capacity, crew rostering, and FTL validation in one calendar.

One calendar for flights, maintenance, and crew

Flight operations, maintenance planning, and crew rostering rarely fail because teams lack effort — they fail because each department maintains its own version of availability. AirOS Schedule is integrated operational and maintenance planning: one calendar where aircraft status, Part-145 work packages, hangar capacity, engineer skills, and crew qualifications are constraints on the same timeline.

Dispatch, CAMO, and maintenance control work from the same data instead of reconciling overnight exports before every planning meeting. Reduce downtime by balancing maintenance requirements, engineer availability, hangar bays, and commercial flying in a single environment — with draft plans, clash detection, and real-time updates before anything is published to the live fleet calendar.

What is aviation scheduling?

Aviation scheduling aligns aircraft availability, maintenance requirements, crew qualifications, and operational constraints into a plan that can be published, audited, and executed. Unlike generic project tools, it must respect airworthiness limits, flight time limitations (FTL), type ratings, hangar capacity, tooling, and the commercial commitments tied to each airframe.

Effective fleet planning starts with an honest picture of what each aircraft can do: open defects, upcoming compliance due items, embodied modifications, and projected utilisation from the flight programme. Maintenance planners reserve hangar slots before due dates become ramp risk. Crew planners assign qualified personnel within duty and rest limits. Operations control sees clashes — double-booked aircraft, overlapping bays, engineers on two jobs, crews approaching FTL — while the plan is still a draft.

AirOS Schedule treats these as one problem. Flight scheduling, CAMO planning, MRO workload, and engineer rostering share the same operational model as Maintenance, Aircraft, and Users.

Built for your organisation

  • CAMOs — Continuing airworthiness planning with schedule-driven maintenance forecast, compliance projection from flight programmes, and hangar windows reserved before due items slip.
  • Part-145 organisations — Work package alignment, engineer rostering by skill and certification, and hangar slot planning alongside line maintenance.
  • Operators — Aircraft utilisation planning for charter, scheduled services, and mixed fleets with real-time clash detection.
  • MROs — Heavy maintenance planning, capacity modelling, and Maintrol work package integration on shared resource timelines.
  • HEMS operators — Rapid replanning when aircraft, crew, and maintenance windows compete under dispatch pressure.

Plan operations and maintenance together

  • Maintenance planning — Project compliance due dates from the flight programme, generate maintenance blocks on the fleet calendar, and align hangar capacity before workload becomes AOG risk.
  • Maintenance slot planning — Reserve bays, line slots, and engineer teams for inspections, defect rectification, and heavy checks without double-booking the same airframe.
  • Crew rostering — Assign crew by type rating, recency, and availability with FTL validation alongside roster assignments.
  • Hangar capacity — Model bay occupancy, filter by location and skill, and surface conflicts when commercial flying competes with maintenance windows.
  • Fleet planning — Compare draft schedule versions, branch scenarios before publish, and test commercial feasibility against maintenance due dates and crew legality.

Draft plans, clash detection, and FTL in the same view

Most legacy aviation schedulers treat the calendar as a display layer. AirOS Schedule treats it as an operational control surface:

  • Resource timelines for aircraft, crew, hangar slots, and dated actions — filter by location, skill, and certification for the planning horizon that matters.
  • Automatic clash detection flags overlapping flights, double-booked aircraft, hangar conflicts, and competency gaps before a draft plan goes live.
  • Flight time limitations (FTL) validation runs alongside roster assignments so duty periods, rest requirements, and cumulative limits surface as scheduling conflicts — not surprises on the day of operation.
  • Draft plan branching lets teams compare schedule versions, hold alternatives, and publish only when planners are satisfied.
  • Real-time sync keeps dispatch, maintenance control, and crewing aligned when plans change — no waiting for overnight batch exports.

For constraint-based optimisation — OR-Tools proposals, hangar capacity modelling, and scenario branching at scale — pair Schedule with the Scheduling Engine. Optimised proposals flow back into the operational calendar your team publishes.

Schedule-driven maintenance forecast

Continuing airworthiness depends on projected utilisation as much as historical meters. When flight programmes accelerate, compliance due dates move forward — often faster than maintenance control notices in a static AMP view.

AirOS schedule-driven maintenance forecast connects the flight programme to maintenance compliance:

  1. Load a draft or published flight programme for an aircraft over a planning window.
  2. Estimate sector parameters — block hours, cycles, and landings — from historical flight data with confidence scoring.
  3. Simulate life-limited component meters forward, cascading utilisation from airframe to installed components.
  4. Project compliance due dates so planners see which inspections and MRB tasks move with increased flying.
  5. Generate maintenance blocks on the fleet calendar — hangar windows reserved before due items become operational risk.

This closes the loop between commercial scheduling and CAMO planning. Instead of asking maintenance control to guess utilisation from last month's averages, the forecast uses the same flight programme dispatch is building — with export to CSV for offline review and fleet-wide projection for multi-aircraft operators.

How AirOS compares

Legacy aviation systems often keep flight scheduling and maintenance planning in separate modules that sync on a delay. AirOS Schedule combines them on one calendar — with maintenance forecasting, engineer rostering, FTL checks, and optimisation built in rather than bolted on.

CapabilityAirOS ScheduleTypical legacy MIS
Real-time schedulingYesOften batch or delayed
Flight and maintenance on one calendarYesUsually separate modules
Maintenance forecast from flight programmeYesVaries
Schedule-driven compliance projectionYesVaries
AI planning assistant (AURA / Maintrol)YesUncommon
Resource optimisation (OR-Tools)YesVaries
Engineer rostering by certificationYesOften a separate tool
Draft plan branching and version compareYesUncommon
FTL validation in the scheduling viewYesSeparate crewing module
Hangar capacity planningYesBasic Gantt only

Who uses AirOS Schedule?

RoleTypical use
Dispatch & operations controlBuild and publish flight programmes, monitor real-time changes, resolve day-of disruptions
CAMO & maintenance planningAlign hangar capacity with projected due items, generate maintenance blocks from flight forecasts
Crewing & rosteringValidate FTL and competency flights alongside aircraft assignments
Commercial & charter salesTest schedule feasibility before committing customer windows

Integrated with the rest of AirOS

Schedule is not a standalone Gantt chart. It shares entries, permissions, and real-time events with:

  • Aircraft — fleet availability, type ratings, and configuration drive what can be scheduled
  • Maintenance — work packages, defects, compliance status, and Maintrol planning feed clash detection and forecast projection
  • Users — crew certifications, roles, and availability underpin engineer rostering and assignment validation
  • Flight Log — planned sectors link to interactive route planning and logging
  • Competency — training flights and overdue competencies appear on the same timeline
  • FTL — duty and rest rules validate against roster data during scheduling
  • Regulation Intelligence — regulatory change awareness supports audit-ready planning decisions
  • Scheduling Engine — constraint-based optimisation proposes feasible alternatives before publish

Built for regulated operations

AirOS Schedule is designed for organisations that need traceable planning decisions — draft versus published states, conflict resolution history, and maintenance blocks generated from documented flight programmes. Planners stay in control; the system surfaces constraints early so airworthiness and commercial commitments stay aligned.

For a walkthrough against your fleet types, bases, and planning horizon, contact us for a demo.

Overview

Plan flight operations, maintenance events, crew assignments, and hangar capacity in one resource timeline with real-time clash detection and schedule-driven maintenance forecast.

AirOS Schedule connects dispatch, CAMO, and maintenance control on the same operational data — so aircraft availability, compliance status, and crew qualifications are constraints planners see once, not three times across separate tools.

Compare draft schedule versions, validate flight time limitations (FTL), and integrate competency flights so planners see compliance alongside availability. For constraint-based optimisation and hangar capacity modelling, pair with the Scheduling Engine — OR-Tools proposals flow back into the operational calendar your team publishes.

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Features

  • Flight Scheduling: Plan and manage flight schedules with aircraft availability tracking
  • Maintenance Planning: Schedule maintenance events and track compliance requirements
  • Crew Management: Assign crew members based on certifications and availability
  • Resource Allocation: Optimize hangar slots, equipment, and facility usage
  • Conflict Resolution: Automatically detect and resolve scheduling conflicts
  • Capacity Planning: Forecast demand and optimize resource utilization
  • Real-time Updates: Live schedule updates with automated notifications
  • Compliance Tracking: Ensure regulatory compliance for all scheduled activities
  • AI Maintenance Planning (Maintrol): AI assistant for planning and optimizing maintenance work packages with critical path analysis
  • Task Dependencies: Visual representation of maintenance task dependencies and blocking relationships
  • Long Term Maintenance Forecast: Extended forecasting for maintenance planning with Maintrol hours integration
  • Location Filtering: Filter resource allocation by location
  • Skill Efficiency Tracking: Track and display skill efficiency metrics for resource allocation
  • Compare Schedule Versions: Compare different versions of your schedule side-by-side
  • Scheduling Engine Link: Import optimised proposals from OR-Tools constraint solving
  • Schedule Plans: Branch and merge schedule scenarios before publishing
  • Flight Time Limitations: Integrated FTL validation for crew duty and rest rules
  • Competency Flights: Schedule training and competency flights alongside operations
  • Hide Unavailable Users: Option to hide unavailable users in scheduling views

Aviation scheduling FAQ

Answers to common questions about aviation scheduling, maintenance planning, and fleet operations.

Aviation scheduling software plans and coordinates aircraft availability, maintenance events, crew assignments, hangar capacity, and regulatory constraints in one operational calendar. AirOS Schedule goes further by unifying flight operations, CAMO planning, MRO work packages, and engineer rostering in a single data model — so planners see clashes before they become AOG events.

Integrated operational and maintenance planning means flight schedules, maintenance slots, crew rostering, and resource allocation share one timeline and one source of truth. Instead of reconciling exports from separate systems, AirOS Schedule lets dispatch, CAMO, and maintenance control work from the same constraint-aware calendar with real-time updates.

Maintenance scheduling software projects utilisation from flight programmes, aligns tasks with approved maintenance programmes, and reserves hangar bays and engineering labour. AirOS schedule-driven maintenance forecast simulates block hours, cycles, and landings forward, projects compliance due dates, and generates maintenance blocks on the fleet calendar alongside commercial flying.

Hangar capacity planning matches maintenance workload to available bay space, tooling, and engineers over a planning horizon. AirOS models hangar slots as schedulable resources with automatic clash detection — so heavy maintenance, line checks, and flight operations cannot conflict without planners seeing the overlap first.

Operators balance commercial flight programmes against approved maintenance intervals, open defects, and hangar availability. AirOS lets planners generate maintenance blocks from schedule-driven forecasts, link work packages from the Maintenance module, and validate that published flights do not conflict with reserved maintenance windows or crew qualifications.

CAMOs forecast maintenance demand by projecting utilisation from planned flying rather than historical averages alone. AirOS schedule-driven maintenance forecast uses the same flight programme dispatch is building, cascades life-limited component meters, and projects compliance due dates so CAMO teams can reserve maintenance slots before due items slip.

Maintenance slot planning reserves hangar bays, line maintenance windows, and engineering teams for scheduled inspections, defect rectification, and heavy checks. AirOS Schedule treats slots as resources on the fleet calendar with clash detection against flight operations, engineer rostering, and tooling availability.

Yes. AirOS Schedule supports Part-145 maintenance planning by aligning work packages, engineer assignments by skill and certification, and hangar slot planning on the same timeline as flight operations. Integration with the Maintenance module connects scheduled blocks to work package planning, defect status, and release workflows.

AirOS connects crew assignments to certification and availability data in the Users module, with FTL validation running alongside roster and schedule views. Duty periods, rest requirements, and cumulative limits surface as scheduling conflicts during planning — not as surprises on the day of operation.

Yes. AirOS supports heavy maintenance planning with hangar capacity modelling, resource timelines filtered by location and skill, draft plan branching to compare scenarios, and integration with Maintrol work package planning. The Scheduling Engine can propose optimised hangar and fleet schedules using constraint-based optimisation.

Aircraft utilisation planning forecasts how each airframe will be flown over a horizon and what that flying implies for maintenance due dates, crew assignments, and commercial commitments. AirOS connects utilisation from flight programmes to schedule-driven maintenance forecasts and fleet-wide projection for multi-aircraft operators.

Engineer rostering in AirOS assigns personnel to maintenance tasks and hangar slots based on certifications, skills, and availability. Resource timelines filter by location and skill, and clash detection flags when the same engineer or bay is double-booked across work packages or flight-driven maintenance blocks.

Traditional aviation MIS products often treat flight scheduling, maintenance planning, and crew rostering as separate modules with batch synchronisation. AirOS Schedule provides integrated operational and maintenance planning — real-time scheduling, schedule-driven maintenance forecast, FTL validation, draft plan branching, and OR-Tools optimisation in one platform.

Yes. Charter and ad-hoc operators use AirOS to test schedule feasibility before committing customer windows — validating maintenance due dates, hangar capacity, and crew legality against the same draft flight programme. Draft plan branching lets teams compare commercial alternatives before publishing.

Yes. MROs use AirOS Schedule for MRO scheduling across line maintenance and heavy checks — modelling hangar bays, engineering labour, and aircraft assignments with clash detection and integration to Maintrol work package planning. Capacity planning and the Scheduling Engine help optimise utilisation across the hangar floor.