They are nearly always recruiting, but are you talking about the Airbus or the boring fleet ( not the wrong spelling )? They recently lost quite a few very experienced Capt's from the Airbus fleet that didn't renew their contracts, this in some ways tells you that things are not right here!!! ( you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people, all of the time ).
Expat Capt- around $11,500 (Brunei) pm, there is an $1800 housing allowance ( you will be lucky to get anything comfortable for this amount ), they pay a small proportion of your childrens education here, but a bit more if they are in boarding school abroad
The is no life insurance or medical care as such, however if you are ill and admitted to the local hospital here, they will cover some of the costs, if you survive the drive there??
If you are sending money abroad from here, especially to the UK the exchange rate is not good, ie $1 = .036p
The number of expat and local Capt's & F/O's leaving for new pastures, in some way tells its own story. A lot have very little faith in the airlines management and it seems they are only looking to promote locals into key management positions. It also appears that they are slowly pushing expats out and replacing them with locally recruited people, but this is all hush hush
