Why would Americans be any better pilots than people of any other nationality? Presumably what matters is the standards of pilot experience and training that a

Why would Americans be any better pilots than people of any other nationality? Presumably what matters is the standards of pilot experience and training that an airline demands, not what country the pilots are from. Perhaps some of the Americans working for Emirates do so because they couldn’t get jobs at a US legacy carrier. (I don’t know whether this is indeed the case; I’m just claiming it’s plausible).