. Over time a subgroup of 15 participants emerged from the initial interview group.
Called “double furloughees”, these pilots had been furloughed twice from their airline
in the post-9/11 period – first in 2001-2002 and then again in 2008-2009. Although all
agreed to be interviewed again, ten were available during the allocated time period and
were therefore selected to participate. Questions for this second round of interviews
were designed to elicit pilots’ experience of being laid-off twice, their thoughts about
unemployment, and the impact being furloughed for so long had on their lives and
their identity. Questions were organized under four subthemes: career story,
experience of being unemployed, changes in self, and challenges for the future (see
Table I).?