Stuka,
Regarding pilot vs senior manager salary in your company. Just keep in mind - senior managers do not have clear instructions what to do. There are no airplane manuals, flight operation manuals etc in their live. They deciding themselves. And airline profit and reputation fully depends of their work. Senior airline management is a very specific profession, and it is very hard to find really good managers. Lan Chile is doing good as far as I remember from latest reports - that's an achievement of your managers.