Unmanned freighters, possibly being formation flying slaves of manned passenger airliners, might in fact be coming. But a passenger airliner ticket is a product that needs to be bought by people that trust it while sitting on board. Let one thing go wrong, severe thunderstorms over the pacific and complete loss of network connections and onboard computers, fire or similar and this idea will be toast. Imagine the airline having only bot planes and no more pilots then. The pilots are needed for the non standard decisions not for day to day ops only.
We are not there and won't be for some time. Not even with cars.
Last edited by Less Hair; 17th Jun 2021 at 07:45.