Guessing by your comments I assume that LAN did not hire you and you never got a chance to fly for any of the airlines you mentioned. As I understand LAN is very fair when recruiting pilots. You either meet their criteria or you don’t. You have to be what they are looking for. Therefore their assessment has nothing to do with what sort of friends or old colleagues you may have. I’m sure none of the Bengal tourist have any leverage when it comes to hiring their friends. To their own discomfort they are irrelevant in LAN’s recruitment process. It is the Chileans, specially the psychologists, the ones that have the last word. So if you are upset by the fact that no Colombian airline ever offered you a job, blame the third world mentality of the Colombian pilots that have been running the show for decades. I’m not trying to defend LAN in anyway, but you cannot compare how open and fair they are with the mafia style recruitment that has been going on in Colombia for many years.