A 380 Delays!
With 17 aircraft deliveries this year including the 777 freighter ..We might delay the delivery of the A380 since the only new ROUTE this year will be DURBAN (as of now!!!) .
Also the fact that ICN will be served sometime in the near future by the 380..they will finally find maximum utilisation for the 380. As for the 380 being off the JFK route that seems highly probable because the 777 has better payload on ULR missions than the 380.
However, keep in mind that the Magazine that covered this story, Der Speigel , is an anti-airbus magazine. If you read any of their articles you would find a lot of Airbus bashing. It might be true that EK sent a 42 page slideshow to Airbus with regards to the 380 but you have to keep in mind that EK is their Biggest A380 customer and just like the way Pan Am worked with Boeing on the early problems with regards to the 747 , EK is doing the same ! So in my opinion we MIGHT DELAY but we will definately not CANCEL the 380 !