Every airline pilot should watch the clip below, not it's not click bait and if you don't wish to click on it, go to the TubeOfU and type in "Wien Air Alaska"! It's the 1977 Strike video. It talks about how the "Union" fought againt losing the third man (FE) on the B737-200. The "Union" eventually lost and the B737-200 went to a 2 man cockpit. United, Western, Wien ALL went two men (and women). I say women for the obvious reason AND I believe Frontier had already gone two men/women as there was a famous woman that was hired by Frontier back then.

The gist is automation or crew workload. If the airlines can prove it, it will happen. I do believe drones or autonomous vehicles will deliver packages first then single pilot ops.

The second video is cool as you'll see later in the video what I'm talking about here.

https://youtu.be/LwSzlMRCbsA?feature=
shared


https://youtu.be/CNhNHd8w5TU?feature=shared

https://www.instagram.com/alpapilots/reel/C4OIa94tDyl/

Emily Howell was her name and guess where she wound UP!