Wow, furbpilot is taking this personally.
The reality is that this hypocrisy of the first degree. US majors have been given unfair advantage over anyone else that flies into the US or wherever those US airlines go for decades; deregulation, chapter 11, protectionism, unequal "security requirements" and general political bullying has given them massive advantage in the EU and they still couldn't capitalise on that. Now they throw their teddies out of the cot because others are doing a better job, albeit if one or two of the competition are being given unfair advantage too. It's pretty petulent behaviour.