Really now....you left out shed our blood to kick out the Japanese, rebuild your "economy"
ironbutt57
Suggest you read your history again before flexing your baseless claims. You seriously want us to believe anyone of the colonizers SHED BLOOD and REBUILD economy for the sake of the local people?? Don't even get me started.
Depends what you mean by qualified: daddy is a captain, then sony is qualified?
Love PanAm
So it must be just this part of the world that is susceptible to cronyism? Shall we start collecting stats of how many off-springs of Ex-Delta, Americans, BA or the likes are cutting queue in their joining of daddy's companies? Next I guess you will try to argue they are more qualified that the local kids?
I have trained more than my fair share of Princelings both in Airforce and civilian sectors, they did just fine. It really rattled the heck out of you folks when your expatriate positions are jeopardized, ain't it?
SQ is an extension of politics in many ways, very few fleet purchases are made with the hip pocket in mind.
oicur12.again
None of my business to defend SQ position, I doubt very much more than a handful legacy carriers out there are able to be in SQ enviable position when it comes to aircraft purchase.
You'll find that many establishments watch with keen eyes, on how SIN, both Air Force and Civilian carriers decide on their choices of airplanes.
It's really not that difficult for anyone in the region to see how a combination of economics and technological expertise transfer arrangement will tilt the scale in many of their past aircraft purchases. I would love to hear more juicy news about political influence, that resembles that of China. If it's true that Washington has that much influence on SQ aircraft purchase, how does someone explain the switch of SilkAir from B737 to full A320 years ago?