Hi NG
I don't know about any single employer that pay you the type rating ( at least make you current again) and hire you straight on the left seat without charging you a bond.
KAL requires you to pay out of your pocket and will never reimburse you, Qatar charge you a bond, SIA the same ( when they were hiring Decs) otherwise you need to be fully current.
The only exception was EK the time they badly needed DECs.
Nowadays JET is the only available commuting contract on the triple. KAL is a lottery, it doesn't matter how proficient or good you are to make it from screening to final line check. There's plenty of stories about it here.
Jet contract is far from perfect, there's a lot of room for improvement. But they aren't cheaters. Job stability isn't guaranteed as we'll.
Oh yes, Indian medical is thorough, as Chinese or Korean are.
But lots of old farts find out issues that would have killed them in a matter of couple of years if they didn't went for the required checks for this medical.Think about the other side of the coin!