Agreed 27/09. Future aircraft will fly around autonomously in a 'soup' of airspace with the aircraft's computers arranging separation and a four-dimensional trajectory via a future form of TCAS and datalink with the other aircraft.
Air Traffic Controllers will be made redundant, maybe those who can afford it going on holiday in Economy class in the back of one of these planes, dreaming of when they used to punch off that 'request position report' uplink, chip those pilots (still up front) about reading back those weather deviation clearances, and pinging them for being one nautical mile off track
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Even an ATCO wouldn't get on a future aircraft that didn't have a pilot...would he...?