Also one should bear in mind that whilst there is a short term saving to SQ by placing pilots offshore the Singapore economy overall suffers as they lose a rental and all the monies that this family might otherwise have spent in Singapore plus considerable tax. If one were to extraplolate the correct figures, (and not the ones that SQ Airline House fell for), that correctly depict the 'value' or other wise of overseas based pilots then it would not be difficult to see the ecomonic argument for closing overseas bases.
If SQ was a company that also concerned itself with pilot morale they would take notice of the fact that the rosters for the Singapore pilots have gone totally to pot and are now causing considerable dissatisfaction amongst all the Singapore based pilots who see their quality of life much reduced in order to satisfy the O'seas based pilots rigid roster.
The economical advantages to Singapore (The Republic), of overseas based pilots cannot outweigh the economical advantage to Singapore of having all it's pilots based in Singapore sharing a common roster and spending their available monies in Singapore. Other advantages would be that SQ would have a more content workforce who could concentrate on their job more easily and not have to concern themselves with periphera issues that should not have been allowed to occur in the first place.
Last edited by G.Khan; 21st May 2003 at 19:37.