Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
Decades of CRM go out the window with one pilot. We and the people that regulate out jobs obviously have no idea how many mini decisions are made as a crew in a flight if they try single pilot. Did we learn nothing from captain van zanten?
I'm not arguing in favor of either change.
Question. Which end state (single pilot OR age increase) will result in a greater cost reduction for the airlines? That's the likely solution.
If single piloted aircraft result in ticket prices that are 50 cents cheaper, that's what most passengers will opt for.
Like it or not, we've made flying so safe that fatal large commercial passenger aircraft accidents in the US over the last decade can be counted on one hand. Southwest 1380 was the last commercial passenger fatality and that was a single passenger fatality on April 17 2018. I think you have to go all the way back to Comair 5191 in April 2006 to find another passenger fatality on commercial passenger aircraft (I've excluded cargo fatalities).