I remember in the late 70's when I applied to join SIA they don't even bother to reply because I was a different color skin even though by then I had about 5500 hrs (of which 2500 hrs is pure command jet) and flown with a clean record. My other associates with less hours, no jet experience and not of a clean slate were taken in because they were the right skin color. In fact after getting the appointments in SIA these guys use to belittle MAS in particular and Malaysia in general. Now some of them want to come back sounding desperate and pathetic.…fat hope. Now Singaporean wants to join MAS, what to add further spying operation? Triple fat hope.
If you scrutinise SIA record from 1965 (when Singapore breaks off from Malaysia), not a single Malay pilots were taken in. That shows how racialist they are. Not discounting the fact that they also never took in any Malay Fighter Pilots into their armed forces, whereas in contrast Malaysia had 70% of its Fighter Pilots of Chinese origin by the early 70's.
So why should we take them non-loyal Malaysian and especially Singaporean during period when they are laughing at us on the 3 cents water issue?
If we need pilots then there are a lot from the Royal Malaysian Air Force who had done their parts for the country.