For all you guys out there who came from an environment where you were able to bid for flights, swap flights and have some sort of control over your personal life you have to wake up to the reality in SIA. You will not be able to swap flights, you will not be able to bid for flights , and it is almost impossible to request flights. last but not least: All the better flights with the better destinations will be picked up by training or "connected" local pilots. Your personal life is completely controlled by Crew Scheduling who can do whatever they want and change and swap and cancel your flights at any moment without any sort of pre-warning. You might get upset and become a little vocal with the scheduler, well the next surprise will hit you and that is that all tellephone calls are recorded and you find yourself in the office explaining why you were "so unprofessional". But if you are out of a job and the bills are coming in you might not have much of an option, and that is where all airlines these days , in the west or in the east, are getting their bargening tools from. It doesn't matter if it is SIA or Ryann Air or Emirates, if you knock on their door for a job they know where you're comming from and will offer the minimum they can get away with. Sadly enough we are still our own worst enemies!!!