That's funny Wino, I could have sworn I flew a Concorde with 100/100 seats taken across the Atlantic in the Summer.....perhaps I was imagining it?
The problem that some Americans have is that they have an unjustified inferiority complex. Theirs is a great nation, yet they need constant reassurance that it is so. Thus when something comes along that is bigger/faster/better than what they have, they get very tetchy.
Yes Concorde was extremely fast. Yes the A380 is extremely big. But why worry when you created flight itself and built the aircraft that revolutionised it?