I have nothing but respect for you, and you're welcome to your thoughts here, but it's also not right to question folks memories in such an accusatory way like this.

I know you worked for them, but to me, ACA's IAD ops (as UX) were the most consistently screwed up thing that I've experienced in my 10 years of 200k+/year flying. I still have post traumatic stress from my endless hours at the T-gates at IAD waiting for ridiculously delayed and disorganized flights to RDU. You name it, I experienced it. I grant you, I'm a bit insulated from Mesa, so I'm not drawing comparisons to it. But ACA @ IAD was a consistent disaster from this flyer's perspective. And no amount of blaming UA for gate or schedule control or the like can possibly explain some of the stuff I went through.

I just checked, and I flew that route on ACA 92 times. So I for one definitely flew consistently when ACA was around, and I do not have a convenient memory. I just don't have a revisionist one either .