I felt that the article on pilotless aircraft quite good, especially the point about passenger reluctance to use them. If the price of the seat is low enough SLF will fly on any old crate so why not pilotless a/c.
Hand Solo
I am not totally convinced that BA is a 'fairly typical airline' with the amount of waste that goes on, possibly it is a fairly typical ex-state owned carrier (in line with Air France, Iberia, etc)
Also I don't think that Directors are classed as normal employees of a company, so the bit about pilot pay would be in comparison to the Senior Managers in Operations, Cargo, Engineering etc.