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The economics won't make sense any time in the foreseeable future. Pilots are a small fraction of the total cost of a flight, making the upfront cost to automat
by mortenjorck 3y ago
The economics won't make sense any time in the foreseeable future. Pilots are a small fraction of the total cost of a flight, making the upfront cost to automate the extremely edge-case-laden final 10% of safety-critical operations they oversee a non-starter for now.
We'll have terrible Roomba boxes replacing flight attendants long before anything replaces pilots.
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agothey're a pretty big fraction for shorter range flights/smaller planes (somewhere around 10%?), and more importantly they are a cause of cascading delays. often major delay problems happen because the flight before was delayed requiring the pilots to stop working and you now need to reschedule all your pilots leading to more problems. pilots are more of a problem than flight attendants because there are more attendants, so you can more easily have a few in reserve.
- brewdad 3y agoPilots are more of a problem than flight attendants because not only are there fewer pilots, they need to be certified for the plane you have available. If your reserve pilot is certified on a CRJ-900 and you need to fly a 737, those folks aren't going anywhere.
- shiroiuma 3y ago>We'll have terrible Roomba boxes replacing flight attendants long before anything replaces pilots. For American-run airlines (and many European ones too), terrible Roomba-like boxes would be a big improvement in service. Not for Asian airlines, though.
- ajmurmann 3y agoNot sure about the replacements for flight attendants. I understand they have important tasks during emergencies.