Wake up!!!
All SIA care about is the shareholders, any less profit than the previous year/time frame is a LOSS, yes a LOSS in the thinking of that part of the world.
I was terminated during the SARS debarcle, standing in the crew room on a phone after a flight. Needed to be told as I was departing on leave in a couple of hours and they were worried I would escape and have a longer 90 days notice than the others.
At a pilot meeting later that month, 04/03, the similar retrencments were mooted and the CRM self appointed head of such immediately stood and said, O'seas expats are to go, then S'pore based expats before ANY 'local' was to be disadvantaged.
Expats are tollerated at best in so many ways not only in SIA but all over the world, can't do without you, need to pay you more in allowances etc etc.
The only slight edge is that as said above it may well hold up the so called base wage line as that is the same as a local and as the CPF has long gone and housing has all but been removed the jobs are the next saving available.
There are some really good people in SIA, few and at times well hidden for their own protection I sometimes felt, but the nasty ones REALLY are a class above all others.
There is a life beyond SIA, I actually miss Singapore and returned there for another Aviation position for 18 months, but the same deal is always profit before all else.
I guess you have to go with the flow, good luck to all that are for the bad news