The Rise of Pilotless Air Travel: Smart Airports and the Dawn of Drone Ports

By Futurist Thomas Frey

Airports are about to evolve from static transit hubs into living digital ecosystems. Within the next two decades, the biggest change in aviation won’t be faster planes—it will be pilotless ones. The runways of the future won’t just serve aircraft; they’ll serve autonomous drones, vertical takeoff taxis, and urban air shuttles that blur the line between aviation and logistics. The new airport will be both command center and launch pad—a “smart skyport” managing millions of autonomous flights each day with machine precision and zero human pilots.

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