Originally Posted by
full of luv
Well I'd say it's been since 2008??? or so since any airline (of major size) has furloughed, many on the the seniority lists (and reading msg boards) you have 20/30 yr olds who may be unfamiliar with how this will play out eventually.
I own a 20yr old who happens to be in college. Just this summer I was having a conversation with him about internships/plans for after graduation in a couple of years. In his world where he has worked as a lifeguard in a couple of places while tutoring and sometimes at a store while in HS and first summers of college, he has NEVER known a bad job market. He has only applied, interviewed and been asked "when can you start?" at every job he's attempted to get.
That's his experience growing up during an expanding economy with record unemployment. So there are more recent pilots/youngsters who have had a bit of a utopian employment experience so far who are about to introduced to the other side of the coin.
Hopefully something can help and make it an expeditious recovery so we all don't have to wallow in a downturn long.
I’m in that age group and fully know well what happened from the last recession where you couldn’t find a job and there was no hope. I got so desperate I was looking at caravan ops in Indonesia but thankfully I was recalled before that got serious. I still laugh sometimes thinking what I would do being desperate to fly back then. Of course I flew with a lot of new guys the last few years who were totally out of touch with the realities of this industry. The entitlement was pouring out of them. They though they had the jobs because they were so good. This industry can be very humbling also.