TPC:
In MAS:
1: Medical benefit: subsidized- means we have to pay 50% of group hospitalization insurance. Limit: FO 40k a year. Capt 60k a year. Balance; fork out your own cash. If you have family: sorry no outpatient coverage. Outpatient treatment to panel clinic: limited to rm28 per visit. Anything xtra, the panel clinic will be removed frm panel list the following year. Even your wife deliver, prepare your own cash.
2: Bond: you are bonded for 15 years, means you cannot leave MAS for 15 years. At the same time they deduct your salary monthly to pay back your training fees. To cover RM150k in 15 years, thats close 1.5k a month. And its only happening in MAS. There is no other organization, that you pay back your training cost and serve the bond at same time.
3: Once you finished your ab-initio training, it depends on com requirement. If you're lucky, you'll be in 737. If not stuck flying Otter. Again if your timing is correct, you won't be long on narrow body, but if you're not, you'll be there for at least 3 yrs. Some even longer. Again as you comin back in big group, the training ie sim, line training will take much longer. In 96-99 cadets were sent as cabin crew because training dept can't cope up.
4: With current MAS's fleet, and 1100+ pilots, if your seniority num in the 1st half, then command is not that far. Definitely you'll be the juniors on your joining date, so your command will take very long. Even now FO with seniority num in the mid 500 to 600 still on right seat and some of their juniors are already commander because comp says: "we cannot release you for command due ops requirement" and at the same time taking expat as capts and 747 fos.
5: Travel: the annual privilage travel is not a confirm seat. You and your family may be bump off in the other side of the world if suddenly your return flt is full. There is this instances where capt's family was bump off the flt in Paris, and poor capt has to fly back Paris KL knowing his family stuck in Paris.
6: The lists goes on. Once youre in then you know why pilots are leaving...
BTW good luck. Don't put so much hope in MAS then you'll not be disappointed and frustated.