SINGAPORE: The number of people applying for cabin crew positions at Singapore Airlines (SIA) has gone up by three to four times, compared to levels before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in early 2020.
Responding to CNA queries, SIA said on Monday (May 30) that it aims to recruit around 2,000 cabin crew members this financial year, with more than 800 applicants selected so far since the airline restarted its recruitment drives in March.
About 60 per cent of those selected are returning crew, the airline added.BT: Above taken from CNA report on 30 May 2022 ...read here if you like.
What I like to emphasize is :
- the number of people applying for the cc job has gone by three to four times and
- 60% of those selected are returning crew
If the cc job is so bad as claimed numerous times by some sceptics here then why the above? If the cc job is that bad surely the number of applicants will decline and those who had left won't want to return to be cc.. right?
Another strange phenomena is how come the current cc (I am sure many visit this blog and read about the cons of being cc and yet stay dumb)??
It looks like I am the only one defending the pros of being or becoming cc.
24 comments:
BT those who come here to smear the cc position are nothing but a bunch of sour grapes and some were excrew who either had their contracts terminated due to poor performance or taken too many MCs.
I was a cc before and believe you me it was and still is a highly prized job.
highly prized by who? your pps that complains sq cost cut?
Its consider a prized job by people with O levels or A levels or SPM cos they wont make it outside. To people with masters or doctorate, its a low class job by people who think highly of themselves. Even the so called tech crew earning 10k or so a month are nobodys ij the eyes of bankers, surgeons, lawters or even some hawkers
if u have a masters or doctorate, please spend more time on your specialised field instead of reading this blog.. or rather making complaints in this blog
seems most people who complained had some experience in the airline.. and I wish them success in whatever industry/field they are in. But I really doubt they will be happy, with this attitude that they display here..
Anonymous said...
highly prized by who? your pps that complains sq cost cut?
Highly prized by the crew, their families and SQ
"But I really doubt they will be happy, with this attitude that they display here.." I absolutely agree with the statement. They are unhappy people and no matter which positions they are holding they will still be critical and look down on their fellow human beings. A Big BOO and SHAME to these as******!!!
This time a reset is badly needed.SQ as a Co is needed to rescue the economy,or else we are doomed.The devils are shown by the Ukraine war as Democracy versus Communism,people are born free,in the free world,as stated by UN Declaration of Human Rights.Nuclear armageddon,a possibility,end of the world,by doomsday clock,ticking close,by Putin.In times like these,CC jobs a heaven sent,like GI bill,marshall plan,help to right the economies of the world,during ww2,pay is good,for the Covid time,jobs scarce,rental high,GST hike impending.Life is not simple now for youth,with NS versus foreigner.Now with internet,any misstep will be magnified multiple times,doubt any cover up be possible,by any parties,will be dissed or discussed,dissected ,trial by the media.My 2 cents worth.
Hi BT
My take is that those 3/4x the no. of applicants are roughly youngsters who just finish schooling after Poly/JC studies or NS and would like a first hand try in being one.
Those you claimed are former CC themselves who didnt defend you because to large extend, the cons of being CC is true to them.
Those returned are mostly people who cant find job outside due to old age/no skills/lazy or get the same pay in CC aka losers.
Lets not kid ourselves - CC is basically waiter in the air. Thats the brutal truth wannabes will find out when they start to fly.
Why so insulting coming here and ridicule the cabin crew? We are not waiters or waitresses because these people wait at tables but not trained to help save life in an emergency. You are one of a kind hoping to dissuade the wannabes from joining us. You must lost your gf or bf when she or he became a cc right? Maybe your g/f ran away with a pilot or your b/f eloped with a stewardess?
To the anonymous reader who opined that "CC is basically waiter in the air", here's my views for him and other like-minded individuals to consider:-
1. What type of satisfaction and happiness do you get for running down a person who is doing a job he is trained for? These are people you don't know and you are merely down trodding many without justifications.
2. Just because part of their work require serving the passengers, you linked them to waiters working in the restaurants. You are obviously implying that waiters/waitresses are low-level jobs and that Cabin Crew, although better paid, are no better than them. What have the waiters/waitresses done wrong, or offend you, to deserve this type of comparison? They, like many of us, are doing a decent job and I am sure they don't go around saying that, "I am like a Cabin Crew and those Cabin Crew are like me".
3. A doctor sometimes has to clean a wound, does it mean that he is basically a nurse? There are many more examples I can give, but is this necessary? Surely not. So, it beats me why there are people picking on Cabin Crew.
Do some soul searching - you enjoy belittling others? What type of job are you doing that gives you the authority to do so? To us, you are just a sour grapes snobbish moron and idiot. Move on, man. Go hide in a corner and live in an imaginary glorified lifestyle of yourself.
To the Anonymous above me, Good one. I know you are not a cabin crew but am proud of what you did. Thanks so much for giving us,the cabin crew some dignity to carry out our job with grace and humility
To grateful cabin crew, how you know I not a cabin crew? I could well be one, ha ha.
I know you are not a cc from your style of writing. Anyway we appreciate your help by putting that fella in his or her place. Hope he or she won't come here again and belittle us by branding us as " basically waiter in the air".
Thanks to Anonymous and A Grateful CC for the rebuke of my assesment of being CC.
Answer this:
1) Why CC not prized when they come outside after contract ends and get same pay as in CC where they claimed to receive world class training and 110% receive good paying jobs as claimed by BT, over 35 years of service, couldn't get cashier or security job (his earlier blog post admission)
2) Why turn over happened so high way before COVID happen?
3) If its not a waiter job as asserted by you both, why
SG-ians especially shun the job where they can travel to Instagram-able places like London many times over for example?
Lets admit - M'sian and other nationalities see CC as a goldmine because money earned is too good to let go.
Hi, let me continue to disagree/rebuke your assessment of being a CC. My replies to your 3 points are as follows:-
1) Why CC not prized when they come outside after contract ends and get same pay as in CC where they claimed to receive world class training and 110% receive good paying jobs as claimed by BT, over 35 years of service, couldn't get cashier or security job (his earlier blog post admission)
Ans: You must be a bit naive to think that only CC face this problem. Do you honestly think that every other job (except for CC) will have a demand in later life and they are much sought after? The marketability of each job varies. In other words, there will always be some in other fields that will not be so lucky. Which brings me back to my earlier comment - why pick on CC?
2) Why turn over happened so high way before COVID happen?
Ans: Do you seriously think that high turnover do not occur in other professions? Factually, they occur in most trades, not only in service/hospitality sector (such as restaurant and hospital staff), health care (nurses), office staffs and many others. If not, why do we have to recruit foreign labour. Many services/trades which we need in our daily life would come to a standstill without foreign labour. Why don't you name me a trade/sector which do not see any turnover during pre-Covid-19 period?
3) If its not a waiter job as asserted by you both, why SG-ians especially shun the job where they can travel to Instagram-able places like London many times over for example?
Ans: In life, there are various levels of lifestyle enjoyed by different types of people. This is because various jobs are filled by different types of people based on their qualifications, experience and training. What is wrong in getting a job that comes with free travel. Are you then saying that it is also wrong for someone who works in a hotel because of free meals, wrong if someone drives a taxi because he has a car at his disposal and has flexibile working hours? In short, different jobs have different job benefits. You know of any job without staff benefit? Why must you penalise CC for this?
You also added, "Lets admit - M'sian and other nationalities see CC as a goldmine because money earned is too good to let go".
My response to your comments are as follows:-
1. What's wrong with that? Isn't it normal for people to want to make money because of good exchange rate? In the early days, when the European currencies were strong (especially the UK Sterling Pounds), many Singaporeans went to England to work even in menial jobs and service sector. It is because of our good economy and strong currency that we don't do it now. So, I do not think you should belittle them as Singaporeans did similar things in the past.
2. If you think its wrong for for Malaysians and foreigners to see CC as a goldmine, what's wrong with anybody wanting to have the best value for money. With the Sin-M'sian exchange rate at S$1 to RM3.16, you tell me which Singaporean is not happy with the exchange rate. Look at the news and you will see Singaporeans flocking to M'sia to spend money. So, in short, everybody wants to have the best value for money, whatever the situation.
I don't understand why some try with all means to degrade the job of flight attendants? They spend so much energy and wasted their time here just to ridicule the FAs or CC. There must be some good or bad reasons for their doing so. Could it be they had been treated unfairly when they were CC or their off springs treated them badly after becoming CC? Why why is my question??
Briefly,CC has top down,meaning FS,FSS got all the s'''t,in the name of service no 1.Air Pyongyang got no 1,due to their repressive system better be good or dead.The IFM ,the top dog here,Union ineffective,pursuing their self interest,hence the saga.Their role model Sexcy Ahqua,and so the modus operandi follows.Justice ?Fairness ?When the jobs consist of moving goalpost via paxs with egos ,local one word conversation,how to be sane ?Complains by pax could be a death sentence for their careers and future,entitled Karen's ,pax who push PPS card onto the FSS,how it one be graded,except those Ahqua,Lessie who can handle such environment.Financial needs tied into a loop where one could not got off the back of the tiger.In this current media savvy ,all will be exposed thus what you see here,not possible in the past without internet and hp.Dont like it then unfollow,many will fill in the threads it's their oxygen of life,got it ?
Country manager for Tesla loses his job.
How will he survive?
What job can he do after leaving Tesla?
Which employer will want his skills?
Does he have any skills that is relevant to a new employer?
What type of jobs can he do?
Will he get a lower starting pay?
Flight attendant for SQ loses his /her job
How will he/she survive?
What job can he do after leaving SQ?
Which employer will want his/her skills?
Does he have any skills that is relevant to a new employer?
What type of jobs can he/she do?
Will he/she get a lower starting pay?
Both can be a GRAB driver ( if both have class 3 driving licences )
Both can become waiter /waitress
Both can be property agents ( if they pass the tests )
Who will move to a higher paying job sooner?
The issue is that there is excessive hype about a flight attendant's job.
especially in Asia.
In EU or USA its no big deal... its seen as just another job.
In fact, in the EU & USA they are very much respected for their role as
safety officers... not as sweet pretty girls to be gawked at, saying sorry
all the time for cabin temperatures, crying babies, no shavers in the toilets.
Being a flight attendant is not embarrassing.
It is an honest paying job.
But the skills learnt is limited and unique to whichever airline they work for.
The skills are transferable but offers low value to the next employer.
Flight attendants should not fly beyond 5 years, if they want better pay, prospects and wider employment options.
Having options in life makes life more interesting, and with less stress.
The days of working for 1 employer for life is no longer viable. ( except as a civil servant )
You hit the nail Anonymous.
That's the point I try to drive at.
The over glamorous and as you said excessive advertising of being CC.
Take that you pc of crap Anonymous dated 13 June 2022 who answered long winded and beat the bush.
From the Anonymous dated 13 June to the above Anonymous. I was not beating around the bush. To me, you looks like you are a frog in the well and not aware of what's happening around you. I was trying to make you understand that the challenges faced by CC are also similar to those faced by others in various professions. But you kept on singling CC out for reasons best known to yourself.
A frog in the well?? It looks more like sour grapes in a rotten vineyard hahaha....laugh till my sides hurt :::)))
What does it mean when one says that they are 'grateful'.to being
employed as a flight attendant? Particularly SQ..??
Does it mean that being employed as a flight attendant was by luck?
Does it mean that they tried many times..?
How does being grateful do to one's career?
Forever beholden..?? To whom?.. the interviewer?
Own your own destiny, create your own path.. not at the mercy
of a system.
SQ has relaxed the requirements so more people are applying now. min educational requirements used to be A level or diploma. now O level (dun even need working experience) can apply.
And they are starting to recruit male cabin crew from korea!
What does it mean when one says that they are 'grateful'.to being
employed as a flight attendant? Particularly SQ..??
If u join JAL, Emirates or Qatar, you will realised that these airlines are rather strict in many areas.
SIA is more inclusive and sophisticated in it's treatment of cabin crew and tech crew.
If u compare operating pattern, SQ are better in most areas.
In the area of discipline, it has been an open-door policy for SQ.
Some of the other airlines, CC operate under a fear factor (Senior crew instruction is to be adhered to, just like in the Army, or else u will be reported).
The early days of SQ, CC operated in this environment. There were few IFM who were very unreasonable.
The anti-CC anonymous guy probably had a hard time from all these fear factor IFM. This is why he has nothing good to say about CC.
And this person is a guy and not a female.
I can narrow him down, haha.
Basically to answer your question about you are better off in SIA :- SQ is more inclusive and the CC are more sophisticated and the CC culture has come a long way and getting better year on year.
On Boh Tong blog, l can see changes in the comments (more sophisticated and refined in their contents commentators coming in). Good.
There is one left who is still putting down CC as a great job.
Boh Tong's blog could have gotten ever more popular through the years but unfortunately in the early days of your blogging, you have 3 anti CC trolls which created havoc in the comments section and chased my readers away from commenting.
This is why your blog did not progress much.
U should have ensured communities guidelines and respect in people's comment in the early days and the blog would be very successful by now.
I noticed in the early days when someone made a good comment, this anti-CC guy would come in and shoot them down and chase all the commenters away, resulting in hardly anyone coming in to comment after that.
All you get and still around are 3 anti CC guys making degrading comments about CC.
Apparently 2 anti guys have sobered down leaving one standing (General Custer's last stand, hehe).
Anyway being a cabin crew (job asides, don't talk about the working part, which is exhausting) truly offer you an awesome lifestyles, even the rich and famous cannot experience.
The CC environment provides you the best entertainment and enrichment in your life on planet Earth that no other job can come close.
Other job can get you higher remuneration but is unable to match the lifestyle.
So u choose: more money and better status job
OR - the CC lifestyles where u make all the young girls cry and enjoy the world with all its intriguing entertainments thrown in.
Cheers.
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