The main issue if you decide to work and live in Thailand is that many of these so called "airlines" fail to pay you a cent for months for no apparent reason (JET ASIA is a shocker), others will string you along with smallish handouts knowing that what they give you will allow you to at least eat.Jet Asia simply fire you and you are owed huge amounts and have very little chance of getting anything back unless you have unlimited time and resources and the owners (the "brothers" ) know this and take advantage of your free labour.Even Thais shy away from Jet Asia they are so bad.
Orient Thai has lost 80% 0f their pilots, primarily locals because of zero salary for 7 months now.If you like to work for free please go ahead.Asia Atlantic pay but they have very very incompetent expat managers who cant train at all, and are very very nasty as well.All this info can be verified.The courts dont help much because delaying action can take up years and years.Its basically this slave labour.
Other outfits like Thai Lion and Viet Jet SEEM okay...........be warned, especially ORIENT THAI ASIA ATLANTIC and THE VERY VERY NASTY JET ASIA.This is apart from some of the horrific mechanical issues you will encounter most days due to a combination of poor maintenance and very old aircraft.Pete