Originally Posted by
labbats
Making $200 round trip gross on a two hour turn pays the pilot nothing. Good luck with that in 2020.
That's where this technology is going, it's not the threat of fully autonomous, it is the threat that Boeing/Airbus can make a commercial jet that requires a sport type license to operate. Maybe it's single pilot, maybe it's two pilots making $50K year, because it's no longer a skilled profession.