Slingsby,
keep going and don't get disheartened,,but I would say unless you can get an FI job or a niche gig (like dropping paras) forget it for a couple of years and go back to what you were doing before pending an upturn.
I was made redundant after 9/11, but things then were not half as bad as they are now,
Everybody in the airlines is about as comfortable as a man with 20 angry wasps up their arse at the minute.....
