Self Flying Airbus

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Originally Posted by jimjim1

I guess that would depend on the price.

The cockpit crew accounts for about 1.5-4€ per hour of flight per passenger. The numbers are approximate but it gives an order of magnitude.
So your low cost flight could go from 45€ to 43€, your long haul flight from 1000€ to 970€.

So yes lower price could mean more success but I'm not sure it's guaranteed, I hope it would not be !
Because I have at least a little hope that people will not favour products that destroy jobs.

Also because launching a new generation aircraft is always more dangerous at the beginning.

Originally Posted by CargoFlyer11

https://us.yahoo.com/news/airbus-sel...120900008.htmlAirbus' self-flying plane just completed successful taxi, take-off, and landing tests, opening the door for fully autonomous flight...Also: https://www.businessinsider.com/airb...-boeing-2020-4

Interesting, but what about decision making ?

Originally Posted by Easy Street

Pilot error is already the most common cause of air transport accidents and is trending upwards as mechanical reliability improves, technology mitigates ATC errors (TCAS/GPWS/GPS etc), and safety management systems bear down upon maintenance errors and organisational factors. And many posters on here routinely decry the standards of training, the experience, the pay and the working conditions of the younger and/or foreign members of the profession.

You see this side of the coin because the failures of automation that are corrected by human pilots are not tracked and their numbers publicly revealed.
But as a former accident/incident investigator, I can tell you that technical failures that are very easily solved by pilots are about as common as flying errors.