Aeroasis has stopped hiring until further notice. This also applies to people who had already gone through and passed their assessment. No official word as to how or when the possible merger between Aires and Aeroasis will happen.
Rumor has it that the two airlines will merge at some point during the first half of 2011. The newly formed airline will be divided into LAN and LAN regional, therefore solving the difference in salaries. Aires pilots will be relegated to low pay turboprop operations unless they can demonstrate LANs standards; something hard to foresee due to their poor English level. In the mean time Aeroasis personnel will take over the jet operation. LAN is already negotiating the return of the 737s to the lessors to homogenize its fleet with only A320.