The phrase "start on schedule" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to mean that something begins on time, according to a previously arranged time or plan. For example, "The train departed exactly on schedule, allowing us to start our journey on time."
Partly because they are now stuck, few people think that the FTAA will start on schedule.
Nobody believes that the country will collapse into civil war if its membership talks do not start on schedule in October.
After three days of chaos thanks to rain that wiped out play on Thursday, the final round will start on schedule later Sunday.
Friday's sold-out performance of Rafta, Rafta... failed to start on schedule at 7.30pm and we were told to expect a delay of half an hour because of unspecified technical problems backstage.
1.50pm: The bookmakers William Hill have cut their odds on the Commonwealth Games failing to start on schedule from 5-1 to 3-1 after a "concerted gamble" during the last 48 hours.
Although plans are proceeding to introduce the floating casinos on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers as well as on some of Illinois's inland waterways, it seems unlikely that betting will start on schedule.
Instead, the network said, it would re-edit the program in hopes of starting on schedule on Sept. 5.
Yet Mr. Kohl fought for the monetary union, and the euro started on schedule, three months after he was voted out of office.
All these dark theories became moot the following day, when sunshine drenched the field and Game 4 started on schedule a little after 4 p.m.
On Monday morning, yellow school buses struggled and hordes of parents with small children staggered, but school started on schedule in Corona, Queens, after students arrived through streets still caked in snow.
France's industry minister Franck Borotra stepped into the debate on the industry's side, arguing that the reactor should be started on schedule.
