A flight attendant at Singapore Airlines’ low cost carrier, Scoot, has been jailed after stealing around 31K USD from the airline, across 366 flights. It’s kind of wild how this started, and the logic that was used, as reported by The Straits Times…
Flight attendant makes mistake, then steals repeatedly
A 31-year-old former Scoot flight attendant has been arrested and charged with criminal breach of trust, which can potentially include a years-long jail sentence. This comes down to a scheme that took place between July 2023 and March 2025, which saw the flight attendant steal on 366 different occasions.
This flight attendant was an inflight supervisor for Scoot, and it seems this started innocently enough. Scoot sells food and drinks onboard, and passengers are allowed to pay for these items with cash or by card (many airlines are cashless nowadays, but not Scoot).
The protocol was that the inflight supervisor would place the cash in special Brinks bags, and at the end of each trip, the inflight supervisor would do a tally of the items sold, record them in the software, and then bring the bag with cash to the Scoot office in Singapore within 48 hours of the flight.
However, in July 2023, the flight attendant reportedly accidentally lost two of these bags, but didn’t report it to management, out of fear of being punished. To his surprise, the company didn’t initially confront him about this, so somehow he then decided to do this on every flight:
“Subsequently, (he) decided to keep the ‘Brinks bags’ and their cash proceeds after all his flights because he was worried that his supervisors would discover the loss of the first two bags. When his supervisors failed to confront him for not depositing the cash proceeds from the subsequent ‘Brinks bags,’ the accused continued to keep the ‘Brinks bags’ after each flight.”
So he kept the proceeds from flights on 156 occasions between July 2023 and March 2024, totaling around 14K USD. Then between April 2024 and March 2025, he kept the proceeds from flights on 210 occasions, totaling around 17K USD.
Investigations revealed that he used the proceeds from this scheme to repay his debts to unlicensed moneylenders.
Yeah, of course this scheme wasn’t going to end well
One certainly wonders if the first two bags being lost was actually a mistake, or just the flight attendant testing the waters to see what he could get away with.
I have to say, I find the logic here to be terribly puzzling. So he lost two bags, and then “he was worried that his supervisors would discover the loss of the first two bags,” so he decided to just keep all bags going forward? Make it make sense, please!
Unfortunately I suspect this was just a move out of desperation, which is of course sad, given the alleged debts he had to unlicensed moneylenders. Either way, Singapore really isn’t the country where you want to do something like this, since the country isn’t exactly known to be lenient to those who try stuff like this…
Bottom line
A former Scoot flight attendant has been arrested after a scheme was uncovered, whereby he stole on 366 different flights. This involves the proceeds from food and drink sales onboard.
The claim is that he lost two of the bags from one trip, and out of fear of being punished, he ultimately decided to keep the proceeds from all flights going forward. That money was then used to repay debts he had from unlicensed moneylenders.
Not that you should ever do this, but Singapore in particular is a country where it seems this will almost certainly end poorly…
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