Resource planning for aircraft refueling in airport parking area

This paper studies a scheduling problem application for the optimization of the employees used in aircrafts' refueling in a medium size airport. The problem is modelled as a particular resource leveling problem for which we provide a mixed integer mathematical formulation that we solve with CPLEX. The model allows to evaluate and analyse different scenarios that could be considered by the company in place of the current one in order to rearrange the available human resources used in refueling activity. Experimental results on a set of real test cases provided by an oil & gas company are discussed.