Hairy Chest, regarding the cadet program in SQ I would have to disagree about there being no real will to fly. There are alot of local guys who are interested in joining the airline, some motivated in flying some maybe not so much. However the point I would like to make is that of the hundreds of cadet applicants who go in for their first interview everytime the airline recruits, typically there will be less than ten left after the whole 2 week 'assessment' process is completed. That is a huge attrition rate borne by the airline and which may be misconstrued as a lack of interest.