this premise has been floated many times before, failing in all attempts because of the seasonal nature of long haul flights, and lower load factors from that.
don't believe everything you see. The kid may not have been able to reach the pedals, and the aircraft could have been flying under wing-leveler- safe enough Somebody screwed up the landing, and that had to be the adult, beer augmented. Nice instrument panel though.
drones will enable fires to be controlled sooner, and still require firefighters to be present. Drones will cost less to operate, and if you have more than enough of them and can refuel them quickly, real progress can be made to control fires.
like the douglas dc-3, the catalina is a timeless design that will fly just fine with turboprops, just a wee bit faster than its ancestors in WW2 and after.DC-3 has upgraded to turboprops and is a monument to forward thinking and genius design. So too this amphibian masterpiece.
if a 67 year old can pass the physical and pass the simulator trainng, let them fly. Check more strenously each year thereafter, up to 70. At that point, if healthy, they can fly executive jets.