People say this to downplay what flying an airliner is like, but driving a bus is hard! They're huge, have lots of inertia, you've got dozens of lives in your h

People say this to downplay what flying an airliner is like, but driving a bus is hard! They're huge, have lots of inertia, you've got dozens of lives in your hands, some systems complexity, schedule pressure, a percentage of whacko passengers (and no crew to help) and that's on top of the day-to-day lunatics with whom you have to share the road. I'm sure your friend is being humble and is perhaps romanticizing the stick-and-rudder days; I still think it says more about how difficult it is to drive a bus rather than how easy it is to fly an airliner. As a passenger, the real problem with flying nowadays is that it's quite a lot like riding the bus.