Welcome aboard. This is your Captain speaking
Why...
Are people so keen to replace commercial airline pilots with computers?
If I remember correctly the ‘unfailable’ systems of SouthWest airlines failed in June 2021. It was Southwests turn again in December 2022. British Airways and numerous others have also had to severely restrict or halt services due to computer ‘glitches’. Even the rock solid computer system of the Federal Aviation Administration went tits up in January 2023.
So far I don’t recall a single pilot or co-pilot flopping over in the cockpit needing a reboot.
Now that isn’t to say I go all misty eyed about losing usherettes at the Cinema or bus conductors on the Number 72, but frankly I prefer a human being in charge of an aluminium bullet travelling at near 600 mph
