ST is opening a new and larger training facility in singapore because they make so much money and at the moment the biggest pay to fly operator in asia.
Pilots have to pay in excess of SGD 200,000 to join their tiger airways and qatar airways cadet program.
That also is only reserve for local Singaporeans and not for foreigners regardless of whether you have the money to pay or not.
Sponsored cadets is long gone and only big airline like for example cathay pacific can afford to pay for your training. unfortunately rumours is saying that as much as 50,000 worldwide apply for that program and they take less than 100 yearly. Plus now they revert back to only taking local hong kong citizens.
The only way to collect hours is to join line training programs to collect hours since they accept foreigners. Many guys pay to fly in lion air and now most of them are flying b777 in qatar and flyscoot.