Assuming you are planning an aviation career, I might suggest a degree which is more towards the skill end of the votech-education spectrum.

English lit, history = education
Computer Science, accounting = skills

Education is great, and can also allow you a post-furlough fallback job as a general white-collar type. But a skill is probably better because you can maintain and develop that skill as a sideline while flying for an airline. This can provide supplemental income during the lean years, and the ability to quick ramp up to a liveable income when aviation falls through.

If you go into computers, it might best to focus on programming vice hardware since you can write code anywhere with a laptop.