It would make sense to put A380's on all direct flights to Oz...
For the nearer future, heard the same thing about EK412 and EK406.. It's a shame, I love those flights.. I hope EK won't replace them without a good (ultra) long haul route for the A345. Anything below about 13 hours isn't really where the A345 was designed for. I heard we might be doing a direct flight to Brisbane... who knows??
As for those flights to South America... might be nice, but then again, 6600nm of which most are over African HF territory.. So long quiet trips over the CPDLC Indian Ocean.
And what about Copenhagen??
MR8