Air passengers wary of pilotless planes – even if they lead to lower fares

 

UBS survey finds more than half of people would refuse to travel in a fully automated aircraft, but says this may change over time.

AMG’s Chris Tarry is quoted in the Guardian newspaper ” It’s going to be a very brave airline that takes its pilots off planes. What is a cutomer’s number one concern? That they get you there safely. There has been a lot of automation, and large numbers of landings at Heathrow are now on auto-land. But operating a drone is a very different thing to putting passengers on board and getting them off safely,”

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