To my knowledge, most all of the former SIA capt's that have left Singapore and gone to KAL (for the great US/Canada commuting contract) have made it thru their training process successfully while watching several other western airline only experienced captain classmates fail. Having a similar asian training experience and the subsequent flying under your belt is almost mandatory to make it thru KAL it seems. Those leaving SIA for KAL included several former DAL guys and they did fine while other DAL guy's with identical western flying backgrounds but no asian experience have had a miserable time getting past the KAL training. Food for thought.....