The day US carriers are permitted to operate within European countries (and for the nth time Europe is not a country) meaning cabotage, which means intra Germany, intra France, intra UK and so on, will be the day European carriers will be authorized to operate within the US. You guys just love comparing apples to oranges. Again I don't really see the fascination of wanting to operate within the US for a European carrier anyway since no US pax carrier seems to be making money right now.