Originally Posted by Hotel Kilo

Well, actually, no, you don't.

You were at a regional. Not a legacy. You were probably pretty young and had no family either. What he's talking about here is folks at destination airlines that got throttled. That had a family, mortgage, bills. Got the rug pulled and then it took some time to crawl back out. Some in that time their spouses left them. Had several friends lose their spouses due to being furloughed. Cruel. But that's life.

Until you've been there, you really can't speak to it.

Then again there's the legacy folks with the main house, the lake house and the condo in Park City. The RV-7, the 38 ft boat on the lake etc etc etc.

I've always lived in this airline world well below my means. I budget for FO wages, been that way since I became an FO (from a SO).