Qantas is retiring its fleet of 10 Airbus A380 superjumbo jets starting in 2028, four years ahead of schedule, citing rising maintenance and fuel costs. The decision reflects declining demand for the world's largest passenger aircraft, with only 171 remaining in service globally and production halted since 2021, though Emirates is expected to operate A380s indefinitely.
Scikit-decide is an open-source AI framework for reinforcement learning, automated planning, and scheduling that enables users to describe decision-making problems once and automatically match compatible solvers. The framework, initiated at Airbus with contributions from ANITI, TUPLES, and ANU, provides a growing catalog of domains and solvers including RL algorithms, planning solvers, and search methods, with extensibility to wrap state-of-the-art external domains and solvers.