I'd like to think I've been extremely partial with my opinions and statements posted so far here with regards to our company, but when I read that email earlier and how it pretends to justify (in my opinion) any significant improvement in our pay/contract, I began to blow some fumes.
It is unreal how SH just implies that, just because we are not like any other airline out there (pretty darn obvious), we can't expect realistic pay increases and all around improvements. Don't know how someone can just defend a position like that with that one argument. A person needs only to look at the stock, profits, and operation costs to realize it would not significantly hurt the company to provide what we deserve as a pilot group.
Fly safe everyone!