Most of the time a pic isn't going to look any good if the foreground is empty. Sometimes if you want to capture a lot of action you might just have to move the camera back so far that all the subjects are pretty small, in those instances I'd play with the balance of distance and zoom to try to fit everything in frame but still distinguishable. But if you can, bringing the camera up
real close to one of the A/C and playing with the angle to see the other one in frame is the best way to go imo.
Go back a few posts and look at some of the screenshots skribetm, RoGenT, LCADolby, and caldera have been sharing. They try to fill their canvas with what we want to see: the planes and the action!