I know you pilots like to dream and drool over the thought of a new toy to play with HOWEVER.....The article was about APA cancelling delivery slots to make money on their investment.
The potential new owners are basically accountants and what do they want to do most of the time?
They will want to save money/cutback on anything they can.
As far as the article is concerned .....in all seriousness what journalists would know the difference between a 747-400 and a 787/777/767/anything with wings and some engines ...or any other aircraft really...
They could just as easily have said they were going to cancel orders for the space shuttle.
The journalist probably read an article at morning tea about someone looking at ordering 777's and by the time he wrote his article it became Qantas.
The main point of his article though was the cost cutting likely to eventuate if the takeover goes ahead .