Originally Posted by
iahphx
You obviously don't know much about airline economics. The USA airlines could afford to buy any airplane they'd want to. They don't buy A380s because they believe (correctly, I think) that having to sell 600+ seats on an aircraft would depress the average yield for these tickets. There just aren't that many places in the world where there's strong demand to fly 600 people at the same time. You generally increase yield by offering the most convenient flight times for biz travelers. That's why, for example, AA flies a dozen times a day between LAX and JFK on relatively small aircraft.
I think that the people running Emirates
do know just a tad about how to run an airline. They have been running a profitable airline for 25 consecutive years - unlike US carriers.
US airlines will do what they think is best for them; that doesn't mean that anything else is wrong
Taking, for example, AA - compare the number ond frequency of its international routes vs those of Emirates. I posit that there are a lot more international destinations serviced by Emirates than by most US carriers