Patent Document ID: 9984580
Application ID: 14593578
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system comprising: a communication device operative to receive a baseline airline schedule including details associated with at least one flight; an optimization module to receive the baseline airline schedule from the communication device and optimize the baseline airline schedule; a robustness analysis module to receive the optimized airline schedule and evaluate the robustness thereof: a memory to store program instructions; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and in communication with the optimization module and the robustness analysis module, the at least one processor being operative to execute program instructions to: optimize, by the optimization module, the baseline airline schedule in accordance with at least one specified optimization objective to generate an optimized airline schedule; evaluate, by the robustness analysis module, a robustness of the optimized airline schedule based on an execution of a simulation based process to generate a set of quantitative metrics, wherein the robustness of the optimized airline schedule comprises a capacity of the optimized airline schedule to absorb airline operational disturbances without deviating from its schedule; and output a record of the set of quantitative metrics; wherein the set of quantitative metrics includes a set of robustness key performance indices (KPIs) and wherein output of the robustness analysis module is fed back to the optimization module when the evaluated robustness does not equal a desired, threshold value for the KPls for updating optimization module parameters to generate a new optimized schedule.