Most of the foreign pilots in Scoot who did not have permanent residence were let go. However they are first inline when the company needs to recruit again. Unfortunately this is likely to be a number of years as, in common with most airlines, an excess to current requirements is being retained in order to be ready as things pick up.
SIA retrenched a much lower percentage of pilots, also all foreigners sans
PR. The main difference is that SIA is a career airline and most non citizens who joined would have intended to stay for their entire career, in which case applying for
PR would make sense. Many of the foreigners in Scoot only intended to be there for a few years before moving on and in this case
PR wouldn’t have been worth it.
Some will take up other jobs and some will leave the industry all together.