Airport Ground Support Equipment worked example

Airport GSE Fleet Delivery Planner at 99% delivery release uptime: a worked example

Push delivery release uptime up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. a procurement or station manager needs to compare planned GSE fleet deliveries with station startup demand

The inputs for this scenario

  • GSE units delivered per cycle: 6 units/cycle (unchanged)
  • Available delivery cycles: 18 cycles (unchanged)
  • Delivery release uptime: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 90)
  • Customer acceptance yield: 95 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross fleet delivery capacity = GSE units delivered per cycle × available delivery cycles) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 102 delivered units for usable fleet delivery capacity, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 108 delivered units for gross fleet delivery capacity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1.08 delivered units for deliveries lost to release downtime.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 5.35 delivered units for deliveries lost to acceptance issues.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where delivery release uptime sits at 90% and the headline result is 92.34 delivered units, this scenario comes in 10% above the baseline at 102 delivered units.
  • It computes usable fleet delivery capacity by reducing gross capacity by release uptime and customer acceptance yield. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Usable fleet delivery capacity: 102 delivered units (headline result)
  • Gross fleet delivery capacity: 108 delivered units
  • Deliveries lost to release downtime: 1.08 delivered units
  • Deliveries lost to acceptance issues: 5.35 delivered units

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Airport GSE Fleet Delivery Planner calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.