My confidence in our new CEO never got established. In hindsight, I will say that his failure to recognize the significance of the attrition due to the merger engineered by a competitor (Skywest) coupled with his failure to see Mesa out-maneuvering him with the next 20 175s has led us to where we are today.

Plenty has been written about the merger and attrition. He inherited that but he never showed an understanding of it until it was too late. We only got the new TA when we had already lost the 175s
As to the 175s, he apparently didn't see JO coming in and off-loading UALs financial burden by offering those next 20 175s instead of UAL having to finance them. I have to give JO credit for what he did. Pretty shrewd move on his part. Unfortunately, it led to what we have now and our CEO didn't see it coming.