Anyone who thinks pax will get onto an aircraft with complete automation and no pilots is living in cuckoo land. Anyone who thinks that pax are stupid enough to get onto an aircraft with complete automation and an office boy to turn it on resides in the same place.
Anyone who thinks 411A represents current airline management thinking is similarly deluded- professionals understand that the cyclical nature of the aviation employment market is not as clear-cut as he proposes. The manager declining applications now will probably be tearing his hair out trying to find enough crews in a year or two- and pilots remember.
Anyone who thinks airline pilots are egotists per se has no understanding of the profession.
Anyone who thinks that creating a pool of unhappy, de-motivated staff is good for the bottom line has no understanding of business.
Anyone who thinks that pilots- unhappy and de-motivated as they may be- are anything other than professional and safe in the cockpit, has no understanding of what it takes to become a pilot.
Anyone who thinks that pilots cannot, by commission or omission, save their companies an enormous amount of money should they choose to do so, knows nothing of airline flying.
And finally... hands up all those that find the pilot-bashing coming from uninformed spectators a little tiresome on the Professional Pilots Rumour Network. Some people, it seems, need to get out more...