Randy,
I won't lower myself to the level of a slanging match as US and EU airlines will never agree however would point out, in reference to the above, that if it was a level playing field then EU airlines would be able to pick passengers up in the US and carry them on the a third country i.e. say LON-LAX-NRT but the US restricts this however US airlines have for many years been able to pick up pax in one EU country and carry them to another, I remember the late great PanAm doing it, e.g JFK-LON-FRA.