Hey guys, you just don’t get it yet do you? Let me spell it out! That’s the Silk Air offer jubilee773 detailed (verbatim from the Silk Air web site), no accommodation and no schooling, take it or leave it. SIA/Silk Air are trying to get people along on local terms (part of the new cost saving measures). If ex-pats are dumb enough to come along on those terms, who are SIA/Silk Air to dissuade them? If ex-pats are smart enough not to bother, then market forces will have prevailed and SIA/Silk Air will have to up the ante to get the people along.
As DPM Lee has recently mentioned, there's no rocket science involved.