Originally Posted by
Guy Betsy
SQ is all about profits and will scrimp and save wherever possible. That includes cabin crew allowance. What airline would ask their staff to return their allowances because there has been a devaluation of the Singapore dollar against all currencies? SQ did. As cabin crew get their long haul overnight allowances paid directly into their own bank account (unlike some carriers which hand them out at each outstation), SQ therefore calculates the differences based on what should be and what is at year end.. and they actually just told their cabin crew that they have overpaid them. So they just docked their pay the following month !
I really see nothing wrong with that..... the allowance is clearly intended for use at a destination, if the exchange rate varies so should the allowance in SGD. The same would be happening is the local currency was paid at the destination.
And flight crew probably know how it works. It might seem a small matter but as a whole it might be a lot, and they are competing with other airlines.
Maybe not the most generous way to run an airline, but hardly something to change jobs over.