Good point!
Groundloop, the twin Airbuses and 767s flying for US carriers are not really VLAs. These days they are mediums haulers. The US carriers insist on thrashing their point-to-point theory. It is not a profitable operation judging by their losses! The main route hub operation preferred by foreign carriers is what will carry the VLA market. Even the 777-300 will not match a high capacity A380 for all the 'flag' carriers- why has Emirates gone for the A380 in such a big way when it has a large fleet of 777-300s already? The scale of the 380 operation proposed for Emirates and SIA, ultimately copied down the years by the big non-US flag carriers and all the other second tier carriers with pretensions to street cred are going to give the 380 a long and steady sales profile. The 787 with its 900 orders is impressive, but people are forgetting there is going to be room in the market for them all. But the flagship A380 fleets are going to grow and grow.
The US is no longer the world leading market for jets controlling what the world has and uses. The 707/747 jet age is slipping into a new era.