I agree that we have more than enough potential airline pilots in SG.
I attended the 2nd interview before and had a small chat with a malaysian applicant, they are flown to Singapore on SQ flights and given hotel stay for atleast 2-3nights. All fully paid for irregardless if they are selected.
They were asking me did I try for Malaysian Airlines or Air Asia, which we can't as the malaysian govt protected their people. All ab initio pilots have to be malaysian citizen, even though air asia is a self sponsored course.
Because we have to serve NS, which we gladly do so to protect our nation, all we want is level playing field rather than some cheap timex or hamilton watch. I appluade Sham Kumar Singh for his courage and hope he is not fired in the near future.
Economic sense is the most important factor for SIA, unless the govt enact a law protecting it's own citizens for certain selected industry/ vocations; things will not change. Taking into consideration that our govt started the open-door policy & is pro-foreign talent, change is unlikely.