Since none of the major American airlines can run at a profit
Your statement is a bit disingenuous unless you have never heard of Southwest, Alaska, UPS, FEDEX, or American (which has somehow stumbled into being the worlds largest airline despite their 'incompetence'). None have ever been bankrupt and the last 3 mentioned compete quite profitably across the pond.
Honorable mention to DHL even though it has now been sold overseas.
If one really wanted to willy wave this is the point in the debate where European/Mid East airlines and/or aircraft manufacturers who are directly and indirectly supported financially by their national governments are mentioned. They compete in the Atlantic market as well.
Myopia, stones, and glass houses.
Moderators, sorry for the thread drift. We now return you to your originally scheduled thread topic of a crap journalist making a crisis where none exists in order to sell papers.