411A The pilots, if I have read this correctly, are being asked to take one week off with no pay in each four week period, (a 25% salary cut), in addition to taking a 22%/25% salary cut, making their contribution nearly 50% of salary compared to the highest offered by senior management of 27.5%, not really fair is it? Add to that the overall loss of Flying Inducement Allowance and the cut goes way above 50%.
The pilots have not, as some senior dignitaries in Singapore have suggested, refused to consider leave without pay but not unreasonably feel that the o'seas based staff who are not full time SIA Singapore should be 'released' first.
The behaviour of the Prime Minister down to the 'Dear Doctor' is reprehensible, trying to stir up feelings against the pilots without addressing serious internal issues of SIA and it's pilot workforce.