[borkt]

I hope you’re correct but the very realistic possibility of SPO (single Pilot Operations) is what pushed myself - and many others like me - away from the career. The current pilot shortage was by design, as the airlines were well aware of the issue and had many ways to avoid it. I’m still of the mind the current shortage (and short term plans to mitigate it) are just to hold them over long enough to end the current 2-pilot system and bring the standard to single pilot operations

[freedomben]

Wouldn't that require FAA complicity? And do you think pilot unions would allow it? Do they have power to stop it?

[textide]

I think the biggest obstacle will be public acceptance of a single pilot at the helm. It would take some serious backup tech assurances and maybe a generation's worth of time before it happens.