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I noted some interesting things flying DUS-SIN referring to the above.
As the crew were preparing for take off, recorded audio was used- both in English and German, with the English in an overly "British" accent which to me doesn't really reflect modern Singapore, but anyway.
Once in the air, all announcements were made live by crew, both in English and German at all times. There were two crew who could provide the German announcement, one with a particularly good level of pronunciation. I'm sure it wasn't a recording because in one of them, she had to stop to cough slightly.
Crew came through the cabin prior to landing in SIN to distribute immigration cards.
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Originally posted by SQ228 View PostI noted some interesting things flying DUS-SIN referring to the above.
As the crew were preparing for take off, recorded audio was used- both in English and German, with the English in an overly "British" accent which to me doesn't really reflect modern Singapore, but anyway.
Once in the air, all announcements were made live by crew, both in English and German at all times. There were two crew who could provide the German announcement, one with a particularly good level of pronunciation. I'm sure it wasn't a recording because in one of them, she had to stop to cough slightly.
Crew came through the cabin prior to landing in SIN to distribute immigration cards.God must have been a ship owner, he placed the raw materials far from where they are needed and covered two-thirds of the earth with water...
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Originally posted by Pinkfloyd View PostAFAIK, SQ does have local (SIN) crew that are trained in German and French.
Normally onboard they wear a badge indicating which foreign language they can speak. Somehow I remember that earlier such badges were also common on Flights to Japan/Korea, but I think they disappeared.
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Originally posted by SQ025 View PostYes they learn German @Goethe Institute in Chinatown.
Normally onboard they wear a badge indicating which foreign language they can speak. Somehow I remember that earlier such badges were also common on Flights to Japan/Korea, but I think they disappeared.God must have been a ship owner, he placed the raw materials far from where they are needed and covered two-thirds of the earth with water...
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Originally posted by SQ025 View PostYes they learn German @Goethe Institute in Chinatown.
Normally onboard they wear a badge indicating which foreign language they can speak. Somehow I remember that earlier such badges were also common on Flights to Japan/Korea, but I think they disappeared.
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Originally posted by Pinkfloyd View PostI know they have Japanese nationals working as cabin crew for flights to / from Japan , might be the same for Korea. Never done SIN-BCN so I'm unsure if they have crew trained in Spanish.
SQ used to advertise their German-speaking crews on some commercials featuring flights to/from Germany.
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Originally posted by Pinkfloyd View PostI know they have Japanese nationals working as cabin crew for flights to / from Japan , might be the same for Korea. Never done SIN-BCN so I'm unsure if they have crew trained in Spanish.
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Originally posted by SQ002 View PostIn my memory, all "foreign" crews have name badges that were gold-background as the Singaporean crews have black-background badges. I don't recall seeing any specific crew has "language spoken" indicated on their badge. Were they disappeared a long time ago?
The badges I mean are black with the national flag of the foreign language they speak.
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Originally posted by SQ002 View PostI believed there are Spanish-speaking crews on these flights, but SQ probably don't train them as extensive as German-speaking crews.
SQ used to advertise their German-speaking crews on some commercials featuring flights to/from Germany.
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Originally posted by SQ002 View PostThanks for posting the thread. I’ve always wanted to discuss something like this. My $0.02 as a huge huge fan of SQ crews.
1. Not in the near future. Like mentioned above, SQ crews are heavily branded as “coming from Singapore,” and recruiting from nearby countries (i.e. China, Thailand, India) wouldn’t deviate much from that image. As much as Singapore’s population getting more and more diverse, I don’t see SQ would recruit CCs from countries outside of Asia.
2. IIRC, all SQ’s crews are currently based in SIN. There is no point having a foreign station. An example I know is that for CX’s foreign-based crews, they operated flights together as one group (instead of a mix of HKG crews and foreign crews).
I am going to throw in a question too:
On my recent trips between SFO and HKG, I noticed that none of these trips have Chinese-nationality crews anymore. Also, PAs have gone from English & Mandarin to English to machine-Mandarin to now English only. Any thought on why is that? Where are the Chinese crews?
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Just my imagination going a little wild, but with more flights to DME now (direct and to ARN), I think they should start looking into getting Russian speaking crew...Also, since the culture is quite different from the rest of continental Europe...what I would LOVE to see is Asian-looking Singapore Girls from Kazakstan...! The best of both worlds, asian looking beauty plus perfect Russian language skills...
A long shot, I know, but...
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