Tune Air is going to be oficially taking over with the day to day running of AirAsia on December 1st. Things are still finalising but going well so far. 2 737-200's will join the fleet by end November and another 3 by early next year. 1 current 737-300 will remain indefinitely. AirAsia's name will be maintained but a whole image revamp will take place as you will soon see. AirAsia will be heavily marketed this time with the new management and also the airline will offer a low cost no frills airline service similar to the low cost operaters in UK such as Ryanair, easyjet, GO etc...
Lets hope the Malaysian public is ready for an idea like that.
YES, there will shortly be an advertisment in the local press for Pilots for the 737-200 and also cabin crew and as far as I know you will have to have hours and I "think" also be type rated (for pilots of course). The exact figure of hours going to be asked for I am not sure. Things can change all the time. As expected I know alot of applications from operators like Transmile are already on the desk. As a new company set up by Tony Fernandes, AirAsia will start with the 737-200's to make money and within an initial 5 year plan my change to newer 737's. AirAsia aims to always be a 737 operator in line with the sucess of other low coast airlines that run the 737. There is the plan to have a maximum of up to 17 aircraft in the next 5 years and hopefully maintain operations from Subang Airport, subjet to the ministry and other powers that be.
I know the first few aircraft are coming from ex airlines so no, the mystery order of 20 aircraft from Boeing are not coming here. I would guess they are going to China? The 737-200's will also be RSVM compliant. Requirements for pilots will include being Malaysian. The new boss is not going to take advantage of the current situation in the States or Europe to bring in Expats and disadvantage current and local crews. AirAsia will be a domestic and regional operator only expanding the network fully within 5 years.
As I said, things may change as it's still in the finalising stages. But there'll be more news as it comes!
Hope this info helps.
Regards.