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C17B74
Very true, but everyone forgets the middle step. Everything coming down to single pilot ops first. Don’t worry about full drone capability being pushed, it’s incremental and especially with public perception involved as you’ve all witnessed these past several months. Long haul 4 pilots down to 2, 2 down to one... Although delayed due to COVID19, next airliners were already designed to drop a seat up front. Bought some time, but it’s coming.
As far as a perfect choice destination airline, not possible until you have retired and look back to see if it met your needs, expectations and so called dreams whatever they may be. Nothing is under your control, you make the best guess and your lucky at best on your choice of airline that takes you to the finish line. Every choice if you were able to make is a best guess and really has nothing to do with you totally. Just a very lucky or fortunate person makes it through decades without a hitch or in this case unforeseen catastrophic impacts.
Mentioned before by several: “Lucky to be hired by FedEx or UPS”. It’s all cyclic and economy dependent. People weren’t even going to FedEx, UPS or Southwest a year ago when called by the others at times. People entering this past decade never really understood that it’s been along time if not the first many pilots had the opportunity to choose where they wanted to live and then the airline vs airline first, then just commute to name one huge difference. It’s back to whoever calls first once again. Now some high seniority folks are headed back into the coal mines they thought they had left years ago. It’s tough out there. Job loss as well, super tough.
Lol single pilot is a fatigue disaster just waiting to happen. Plus it would literally be throwing in the dumpster decades of proven effective CRM training that consistently prevents screw ups.
Plus it would literally cost billions upon billions to implement, and at the first indication that there's a screw up lack of public faith will tank the program.
Most jets still have crt screens instead of led, even though the led's are so much lighter and take so much less effort to cool. The reason is because to manufacturers and buyers it's not worth the money to retrofit them.
The biggest shake up I see is that it seems that the LCC's have a much more stable market with not really relying on business travelers in the first place. People want cheap tickets, so the airline that can profit off cheap tickets will be king.