I've changed my tune...all airlines will cease to exist in 5 yrs. time as every American household will posess a flying hybrid-electric car at that time capable of .82 mach in the flight-levels. For those who are extremely wealthy, NetJets will have acquired hyper-jets that travel in space (Think Arthur C. Clarke, 2001 Space Odyssey) that enable rapid transport around the globe. Their flight attendants will even retrieve pens that somehow float away in the zero-gravity environment of outer-space. Most of us will be kicking ourselves, wishing that we had applied to NetJets back when they only required piston time. Those pilots who saw their careers extended by 5 years due to the age 65 rule will have had their heads cryogenically frozen and reattached to their bodies years later only to come back to the cockpit due to changes in the ICAO regs that allow the piloting of a spacecraft up to the age of 6500 years, pending a thorough physical of course.

Remember, I called it here first