This is the wrong take. US airlines’ profit per passenger is typically 3x that of European airlines, so Americans are paying far more to get treated worse. The

This is the wrong take. US airlines’ profit per passenger is typically 3x that of European airlines, so Americans are paying far more to get treated worse. The reason is that US airlines are larger and more consolidated and so can easily hold monopolies on routes. Unfortunately such consolidation has been happening in Europe too in recent years.