The present invention provides a scheduled service processing method and an apparatus. The method provided in the embodiments of the present invention includes: within a time interval from t 1 to t 2 , if a second transport path that can satisfy a service demand is acquired based on an available network resource, reserving the network resource for the second transport path, and reporting the second transport path to an application layer controller, so that the application layer controller can select one path between the second transport path and a first transport path as a new target transport path; and receiving the new target transport path sent by the application layer controller, and transporting the service by using the new target transport path, where t 1 is a time at which the application layer controller sends the service demand, t 2 is a time at which the service is started, and the first transport path is a target transport path that satisfies the service demand and that is acquired before the second transport path. In this way, a path resource in a network is monitored in real time, so that a path resource used to transport a scheduled service is optimal.