aircraft, bless him, said
"Icarus2001,
Two pilots?
Try 4 or 5, but "looking after" several hundred aircraft."
Tell 'im he's dreaming.
I'll go out on a limb here, and say never in any of our lifetimes.
As long as the cost of the crew is a fraction of the value of the hull, expect to find warm bodies operating the systems in attendance on board at all times.
Autonomous UAVs are for high risk combat theatre situations only. Not for shifting 7-800 people around at a time.
Even cattle trucks have drivers.