SIA asks pilots to volunteer for unpaid leave

[Extremist]

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore Airlines (SIA) has asked its captains to volunteer for unpaid leave amid a global economic slowdown that has dented long-haul travel demand, the airline said on Saturday.

The move came nearly a year after the company - considered a bellwether for the full-service airline industry - made a similar offer to its first officers.

The airline has also frozen its intake of cadet pilots as part of a slew of cost-cutting measures.

"Singapore Airlines began offering voluntary no-pay leave to first officers in March last year and subsequently to captains who expressed interest," company spokesman Nicholas Ionides said in a statement emailed to Agence France-Presse.

 

[Useless]

Shouldn't be a problem for them.

 

[Extremist]

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[mikec]

Yes I've submitted my no pay leave for a year to take astronaut course, tired of flying aeroplane.

 

[SereneLee]

SIA fares are The most expensive for long haul flights.
Business today are all cutting costs and there is a directive in travel policy to take cheaper airlines.
Thats why they are suffering.

 

[Loofydralb]

SIA should just retrench the whole lot of overpaid bus drivers.

They will beg for their jobs and would be willing to take as much pay cut as a toilet cleaner.

 

[kopiuncle]

SIA fares are The most expensive for long haul flights.
Business today are all cutting costs and there is a directive in travel policy to take cheaper airlines.
Thats why they are suffering.

i totally agree. sia , although good, is just too too too expensive!!!...i can't afford it, even for short 2 hour flight...sad hor for singaporeans...can't even afford to fly the national carrier...they should give singaporeans special promotional rate...

now slowly biting the dust.....scoot liao!!!

 

[Conqueror]

CEO Will Pay Himself Another Astronomical Sum

SIA should just retrench the whole lot of overpaid bus drivers.

They will beg for their jobs and would be willing to take as much pay cut as a toilet cleaner.

Then, as usual, the CEO will claim that he is so ingenious that he has to pay himself another astronomical sum to ease his bloated ego.

 

[SereneLee]

Re: CEO Will Pay Himself Another Astronomical Sum

nice video.....reminds me of him....

 

[mikec]

SIA should just retrench the whole lot of overpaid bus drivers.

They will beg for their jobs and would be willing to take as much pay cut as a toilet cleaner.

You LKY clone? Sounds a lot like him.

 

[SereneLee]

You LKY clone? Sounds a lot like him.

sam leong's clone

 

[Dreamer1]

i totally agree. sia , although good, is just too too too expensive!!!...i can't afford it, even for short 2 hour flight...sad hor for singaporeans...can't even afford to fly the national carrier...they should give singaporeans special promotional rate...

now slowly biting the dust.....scoot liao!!!

U should be thankful to your creator,be grateful,don't be like your 88 years old hero,who thinks that creating the world is no big deal much easier than making spore number satu for x years and die,,fucker,God bless u,90 years old uncle,amen

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Isnt there a shortage of airline pilots? These pilots can get jobs in other airlines,,wont be too hard,,also Emirates etc are doing well,,,

SIA fares are The most expensive for long haul flights.
Business today are all cutting costs and there is a directive in travel policy to take cheaper airlines.
Thats why they are suffering.

 

[kopiuncle]

sam leong's clone

hahaha u r multi-tasked and multi-handles superfast ane efficient like sia..can't catch up with u

 

[Yoyogi]

kopiuncle has many skills!

 

[blackmondy]

Even body-hugging kerbaya is not helping....

 

[Yoyogi]

Even body-hugging kerbaya is not helping....

SIA has lost its plot...uphill battle cos its like the PAP which cannot tranform itself to meet new challenges

 

[kopiuncle]

Even body-hugging kerbaya is not helping....

many are quite fatty leh

 

[Dreamer1]

many are quite fatty leh

OK lah,Kopi,looks like u insists on your stupid fun(pleasure of f---),instead of national affairs,enjoy,take care,God bless,amen,always remember that you are 2 years older than that half senile hero of yours.cheers

 

[kopiuncle]

OK lah,Kopi,looks like u insists on your stupid fun(pleasure of f---),instead of national affairs,enjoy,take care,God bless,amen,always remember that you are 2 years older than that half senile hero of yours.cheers

thank u sir..i will heed your kind advice...now going back to imh....byeeeeee