Originally Posted by
Wolf424
As a soon-to-be-on-the-street guy, the fact that folks would even remotely entertain this is humbling.
Honestly, I don’t know how I’d feel about being given 40-45k a year.
Don’t get me wrong, it would be great reassurance for me and the family...but I don’t know how I could accept it without feeling an enormous amount of guilt (as silly as that may sound, not sure if that’s the word I’m looking for)
Good point. I agree that it would be weird to be “paid” $40K from fellow pilots.
I’m a bit older and not in a bad spot if furloughed, but when I posted earlier about this being an interesting idea, I was thinking of the 29-year old new hire that just had a kid and has only flown airplanes for his adult life (minimal job prospects). This crisis is not a normal black swan; there’s never been revenue loss and uncertainty like this. So I don’t think it’s unreasonable to at least discuss helping the very junior guys out more than a “normal” furlough situation.