Tag Archives: SIA

It has taken too long, but our national carrier, SIA, is finally serving Singapore's favourite local dishes on board their planes. From July onwards, all SIA flights will have chicken rice and nasi lemak, among other dishes, on their menu. This will be a good way for local Singaporeans to eat a familiar favourite on board, while introducing visitors to Singapore's local dish. This change in menu is part of SIA's 70th anniversary celebrations, and also to celebrate the Singapore Food Festival, in conjunction with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). The two dish were chosen in a poll that actually meant something, chosen by SIA's customer base online. However, only passengers in the Suite Class, First Class and Business Class will get to enjoy Chicken Rice, Nasi Lemak, Kway Teow Fishball Soup, Chicken & Prawn Laksa and Peranakan Hokkien Mee. Those in economy class only get to enjoy Char Siew Rice and Fried Carrot Cake.

The Singapore Airlines (SIA) has today warned the public of a possible scam, where scammers pretending to be SIA staff are calling and emailing members of the public to phish for personal information. The recipients of the emails or calls are told that they have won air tickets, and then asked to provide personal information. SIA has advised members of the public that no such offer of free air tickets are given out by them, and that members of the public are to exercise discretion when revealing personal data to unverified sources.

The Changi Airport Group (CAG), Singapore Airlines (SIA) and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will take their partnership to a new level, by jointly investing $33.75 million to promote Singapore as an attractive travel destination. This is the highest-ever amount to invested in promoting Singapore to the world. Singapore is a small country, we are bounded by a scarcity of land to build all these new theme parks or tourist attractions. We have to pool our resources to ensure that what we have currently still works many more years down the road, and that we keep one step ahead of our competitors.

Employees have incentive points that are docked when they submit a medical certificate – recorded as casual MC – for common ailments such as cold and cough. Everyone starts with 10 points each year, which are progressively deducted and all lost once 12 casual MCs are accumulated.

However, staff were still disappointed in the circular, as they indicated that it is still quite clear that the SIA management sees nothing wrong with the current practice. and there is no mention of a possible review or rethink, which is quite disheartening. Staff also indicated the current system penalises everyone, including those who are genuinely ill. It does not matter how much. The fact that weightage is given to the MC component is taken into account is unfair.

It states that “Some cabin crew working for Singapore Airlines (SIA) have expressed unhappiness over the company’s medical leave system, and the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is in touch with their union and management about their concerns, The Straits Times has learnt.

Sad news for SIA yesterday. One of their air stewardess was found dead in a San Francisco hotel room, several hours before she was to depart from the city on the return leg of a long-haul flight. The SIA stewardess was named as Vanessa Yeap, 38, who was a senior stewardess on Flight SQ2 from Singapore to San Francisco with a stopover in Hong Kong. San Francisco authorities are still investigating the cause of death.

Singapore Airlines is actively reaching out to more nationalities for their cadet pilot recruitment drive. It says that this was to meet future needs. Singapore Airlines has always been noted to hire Singapore citizens and Singapore PR as pilots, and it is believed to be the first time that SIA has publicly cast its net wide for cockpit crew. Seems now even SIA, the national carrier, is looking for foreign talent to fill up their pool of pilots. Does this mean that there are really no longer many Singaporeans who wants to be pilots? Or is our talent pool and labour force really dwindling?

Singapore's paralympic champion Yip Pin Xiu who won 2 gold medals in 50m and 100m bakcstroke S2 events was rewarded with 1 million KrisFlyer miles by national carrier Singapore Airlines. She was also seated in first class together with paralympic bronze medallist Theresa Goh.

Since whoever that responded (see attached) to my facebook post thinks that integrity within SIA is not important and still requested me to write in instead of taking the initiative to contact me without further delays, I am writing in with the exact same message that I have posted on your facebook page.