Like any otherflight, thesmallcommuterairlinerwill respond to instructionsfromair-traffic controllers, navigateapath and take careto avoidother aircraft.
But a bigger leap was just announced: The jointly funded Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation and Assessment (ASTRAEA) group in the U.K. is going to begin autonomous flight trials using a 19-seat Jetstream 31 commuter aircraft.
If you are a regular traveler on a commuter route flown several times a day, you might have noticed an odd trend of cancelling one flight when there are not many people on it and putting them on the next.