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Old 07-27-2020 | 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by The Duke
Sort of a contrarian view point, but I think this sort of technology might be seen at the pax carriers more than freight, at least initially. Freight pilots are a much smaller cost unit relative to pilots at the pax carriers, where there are many more pilots on payroll. There’s a reason the first prototype, the A350, has windows.
That’s an interesting point. Labor is a bigger unit cost for pax carriers but it’s the freight haulers with the cash flow for the cap ex.
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