SIA Flight Stewardesses' venture.......

There are many "Dillys" in the airlines even up to these days.Many flight stewardesses join the airlines to look for rich husbands among the passengers and pilots. I once asked a very gorgeous stewardess why would she want to be a flight stewardess in the first place.Her reply was "I want to marry a very weathly man and the becoming a flight stewardess would give me the opportunity". Indeed, her dream came true and today she is the wife of a man whose business empire is worth US$5 billion.Yet, I know of another flight stewardess who became the mistress of a well known property developer in Singapore.Dozens of these flight stewardesses married SIA pilots,business executives,bankers,filthy rich crooks and wealthy men from all professions.

My Early Years with MSA ( SIA's predecessor)

Should I tell or should I not?..of the things,maybe some unbelievable SIA stories pertaining to the SIA stewardesses/stewards,cockpit crew as well as the passengers. If I tell,I may step on a few toes and some could be big ones too. I might get sued but one thing for sure,I am telling the truth.Well, what the heck,after all I don't want to bring all those stories and secrets with me to the grave. The world got to know and I am one of the best person who after working for 35 years with SIA( as a flight attendant and executive) to spill the beans.

I started with SIA' predecessor MSA (Malaysia Singapore Airlines) as a flight steward in 1969. I was 23 years old then. My starting salary was S$255 ( it was S$3 to US$1 exchange rate in 1968) per month during training which lasted 3 months. After "Graduation", I was posted to the F27 aircraft fleet which flew to cities in Malaysia. My average gross pay packet was US$150 a month,which was quite good in those days. After a 6 month probationary period I became a "confirmed" staff of MSA and was promoted to the Comet fleet which flew to international destinations like Perth, Hong Kong, Taipei etc.
My salary went up by 50% mainly because of the night stop and meal allowances paid by the company whenever we stopped at those cities.

Life on the comet jet fleet was more exciting. The cabin and cockpit crew were put up in 5 star hotels whenever they night-stopped at outstation.
Passengers traveling on jet planes were more sophisticated than those on the domestic F27s. They were a class of their own,even the economy or coach class passengers. Most of these passengers were well dressed and rich and were more friendly and well mannered than their present day counterparts. They were also generous with the crew, some tipping the crew with hundreds of dollars at a time or treating the entire set of crew to dinners and what have you, whenever they stopped with us at outstation. I still remember the rich and very generous passengers like Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Eric Chia, Sugar King Mr. Robert Kuok,the late Indonesian businessman Mr. Sutopo Yap whom we affectionately addressed as "Pak", Datok Lin of Sabah,the late chief minister of Sabah Tan Sri Mustapha, the late Chief Minister of Singapore Mr. David Marshal and many more. Some of these passengers married our stewardesses.
I remembered the first stewardess to be "hooked" by a Chinese business tycoon was Dilly( not her real name), a delightful looking girl whose make-up made her looked like a Hong Kong actress. She was chauffeured wherever she was,whether it was in Hong Kong or Singapore. I remembered her pestering her rich but stingy boyfriend to bring the whole set of cabin crew out for dinner one night in Hong Kong. He did however, reluctantly brought all of us out with Dilly for a lovely meal in Hong Kong. This rich boyfriend of Dilly was a big business tycoon from Sabah.He must have been in his 40s and Dilly was a sweet mid-20s.

The next thing I recalled was Dilly and her boyfriend broke off after a few years together and this time Dilly was flirting around with another filthy rich Malaysian multi millionaire who was younger than the first one.

All in all, I think Dilly has amassed a huge fortune from these 2
"boyfriends". She would probably owned a few houses and apartments with lots of cash and jewellries. Oh Dilly must be in her 60s now..still alive I was told and living in Penang.

Stay on cos I will be back to tell you more......