Maybe good advice for senior line holders, but what you're forgetting about the furloughed guys is we're not getting paychecks anymore. This tends to take a toll on vacations. Also, when you're not getting a paycheck anymore the savings you have are all the money you're likely to have until you become reemployed. Since we don't know when we're going to get reemployed advising people to blow their savings on vacations is perhaps a bad suggestion. Of course some people may have more savings than I, or may have married a woman who makes more money.... maybe I should have thought that thru.