Nosig
I'm sorry but the messages are clearly contradictory to me, the pilots newsletter of June puts a figure to the savings.(That was the theory!)
My August roster has more crew pairing than my July one.
Everyone with whom I have discussed the letter from VHP considers it at best weak, at worst patronising. You're right, it does mention Carmen somewhere down the page but the crews thought it should have been the banner headline.
RDW's comments re crew sickness and the ramp at Luton just confirm the above.
zippyz has pretty much summed up the problem in the last few lines of his latest post.