We get it, you have a hate on for the US carriers. Why? Who cares.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
This thread is about unfair competition and subsidies. The Big 3 US carriers struggled due to the ridiculous attitude of some of the Unions. They had been unable to compete at home and shedding jobs to the feeder carrier network has led directly to the race to the bottom in the US. But the Big 3 US carriers claiming the moral high ground is ridiculous when they have benefitted by transferring debt and pensions to the government and claim they were not subsidised. At the drop of the hat they fire (sorry furlough) employees to save cash.
I agree that the ME3 do get some subsidies but lumping Qatar and Emirates together is ludicrous. Qatar is the richest nation in the world and buys everything including passenger traffic to support Qatar Airways. Emirates financially supports Dubai.
If we want to see the root cause, just maybe it lies here:
Rick Dubinsky, longtime head of the AirLine Pilots Association at United, made this clear when he and Goodwin began a recent wage negotiation. ''We don't want to kill the golden goose,'' Dubinsky told Goodwin. ''We just want to choke it by the neck until it gives us every last egg.''
All of that said, USA Inc must be onto a massive winner based on the 500 Plus Boeings being procured.