The locals in Singapore Airlines will not move an inch, so forget any of them being available to join EK. Their technique is to encourage ex-pats to seek pastures greener, in the hope of an exodus which will then force the airline (read government) to up the salary package and thus ultimately benefit this “home team”.
The ex-pats to date who’ve been given the bullet (an unnecessary, highly political and ultimately futile “exercise”) in the main seem to be about to move to China Airlines (relatively good salary package) rather than consider EK with much enthusiasm. As far as I can gather, the feeling is of a poison chalice being taken up if they move there (antipathy from future colleagues) plus the salary package being much inferior to that of CAL. Similarly, the ex-pat pilots with sufficient “merit” to remain with SQ for the time being are also unimpressed with the perception of the EK DE package, judging it simply not worth the effort of a shift to the desert.