And why cancel many destinations with only one flight a day or less? You would think they'd keep some traffic flowing as some are still quite 'fragile' destinations.
Look at Yekaterinaburg, Air Arabia serves SVX too and will now get all those pax as there is no other choise to get to UAE/DXB/SHJ. Furthermore Transaero will be starting a big 'Russia to DXB' expansion including from some of our destinations.
On the other hand looking at the pattern of destinations it looks like they still have an option of moving flights to DWC as they are 'onwards' connecting pax like Kazan to Male/Colombo.
And there goes the Airbus dream...