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Old 11th Sep 2003, 11:00
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Wee Weasley Welshman
 
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Pilots are dirt cheap and thats a fact.

Per passenger the co-pilot costs about 80p per sector and the Skipper about £1.40 (using a low cost airline model).

Now, you tell me, how much is the infrastructure, the development and the maintenance going to cost to replace the two bods at the front? Clearly more. Therefore:

Total automation of commercial airliners is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist in response to a question that was never asked.

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