Im not bashing Branson at all. However if Im going to be sharing the same sky as the guy I want to know that he is awake. Or if not that the aircraft is quite capable of operating by itself. Which has yet to be proved with UAV's Where the acident rate is thousands of times greater than in commercial aircraft.
It would be rather ironic if he dozed off mid atlantic and wiped out one of his own jumbos going the other way.