Mick
"Come to Dubai and bring lots of money"" That is the message I am trying to get across to anyone considering joining SQ!!
I would suggest you have to bring far more money to Singapore than to Dubai as you have to live on a reduced salary for up to 5 Months until you are checked out on the line and even if you come type rated it takes just as long. Also you have to put up huge sums as deposit for school fees and rent and the Singapore Dollar has dissolved in value far worse than the UAE Dhiram and of course there is tax to pay in Singapore. Still you know all that I realise hence your new found interest in KA. Best of luck.
Several F/O's from SQ on the A340 have joined KA and are now Captains, something they would have found difficult to achieve being ex-pats in SQ