The recent strikes at LH were cabin crew strikes, a cost you cannot offset with a pilotless aircraft as long as the airline still wants to offer some kind of inflight service. To replace them with an automated firefighting and evacuation system is technically possible, however one has to calculate the maintenance and weight penalty, not to mention the healthcare and insurance premiums for the case of a halon flooded cabin full of dieing passengers.
Pursers will be fired in pilotless airplanes.
The old pilot will be a new purser , with purser`s salary of course.If everything goes well he serves coffee , if an emergency arises , he goes to the cockpit to land the f%&/() plane.
