Saving Jet Fuel
Summary
Open-source AI-driven flight planning is explored using scikit-decide with OpenAP and OpenTop, showing how wind data and aircraft models can reduce fuel use. The post provides setup steps, data handling with DuckDB extensions, and concrete flight examples (TLS→BER and TLS→WAW) with metrics like fuel burn and time. It also demonstrates a workflow combining Python tooling, datasets, and visualization to evaluate routes.