This will end up just like the -500s....with very low residual value of this highly specialized aircraft killing the economics eventually.  Those old birds were built for such low cycle count that even compared to other A340s (all squishy values)...they were the worst of the lot.   Not...

The old flights to EWR and LAX were nonstop, not direct.  The flight to IAH is direct.   There is an important difference.