Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
As an analogy, a lot of people find the US immigration and international transfer process extremely inconvenient and annoying. Some even go to great lengths to avoid US as much as possible. Has it seen the collapse of all the alliances (since they all have US-based airlines)? No of course it hasnt.
How many people use the USA for transit versus LHR? Maybe I'm mistaken, but it has always seemed to me that the European hubs (LHR, AMS, CDG, FRA) carry a lot more international connecting traffic (that is, passenger's origin and destination are both in countries other than the hub) than the USA hubs do?