Airbus' ideal for long distance flying is not mine. If you've ever watched rush hour at JFK, that is Airbus' vision. Imagine 20-30 of these things waiting in line to take off. I'd much rather be able to catch a direct flight at DFW or IAH than have to go through JFK.
Yeah. . .I've had five internation flights this year and I can't stand LAX, JFK and IAD.
The problem is, in Asia, there are, for all intents and purposes, mostly JFKs, with DFWs and IAHs (or even smaller places) being the exception. Massive concentration of international operations. Airfields there are either really huge (international) or barely big enough to handle 737s (strictly domestic). Obviously there are excpetions to this rule, however, the way things are here in the US is not the way they are in Asia.