Mr Salmon - no, honestly.
They over-expanded too soon. I had discussed this with a couple of cockpit guys at Dulles. The expansion to LAS and LAX stretched their operation too far; they then ran into ac unserviceability issues they weren't capable of covering [it was always a bit tenuous when they just did IAD and JFK].
The aircraft were a bit old and tired, but the CC were simply AMAZING. I regret their departure very much.
BTW, nice to see you again!
