Good point map shift, actually the most succesful airlines worldwide( and also the safest ) are heavily unionized. If you you want to fly as a passenger, I'm sure you'd rather have a pilot who's had a trayectory with the company, and not someone you don't know anything about. The problem with this country is that unions are portrayed as an obstruction to growth, truth is that the average LanChile employee makes about U$ 500 so I would say that the problem are not the unions but rather the management. They make salaries that are world standard and won't let the rest of the employees on a fair share of the cake.