"if at first you don't succeed, try try try again"?
How about "Don't chuck good money after bad"?
United did well...
Says who?
Not United, and I think they're the ones who really know.
Not American, who planned flights and then pulled out.
Not the long list of airlines not rushing into the hole left by United
Also, can you really compare the business models of airlines from the USA and EK - they operate in different worlds.
NCL lagging behind? It isn't comparable to BRS, and BHD scrapes in (just) as a DHC8D destination (NCL doesn't), so don't compare apples and oranges again.
NYC demanded a disproportionate amount of effort - any coincidence that RYR turn up in numbers after NYC?