Hmmm, I'm pretty sure the OP was talking about badly managed American carriers (who blame everything on 9/11 instead of their own incompetence) and comparing them unfavourably with the well run Asian carriers who are likely to recover quickly from the tsunami disaster.

Incidentally, in Europe the fallout from 9/11 included a couple of national carriers who were allowed to die naturally (a process known as "free market capitalism") and with the exception of Swiss, the European aviation industry is looking comparatively healthy at the moment.