Overview

• NTUC’s Ng Chee Meng said 90% of affected pilots and cabin crew have secured interviews or jobs with employers such as the SIA Group and Marina Bay Sands.
• SIA Group offered to create 300 roles for displaced staff — 100 for pilots and 200 for cabin crew — though it declined to disclose how many have been filled.
• Former employees have started new roles, including a captain and a flight attendant at Scoot and a former cabin-crew trainer now managing training at SAAA Cargo Services.
• Analysts and unions stress structured onboarding, transparent role mapping and active monitoring of morale to integrate incoming staff without unsettling incumbents.
• Jetstar Asia ceased operations on Jul 31 after more than two decades, with Qantas citing sharply higher supplier and airport costs and rising competition; Scoot plans winter-season flights to Okinawa and Labuan Bajo.