EK might get problems with traffic rights on MXP-JFK. This could be moved to MAN, some say
Ive also heard the same, and due to the frustration it has caused EK, as sign of protest they will not wait until April 2015 to move it either.....
Time will tell, but as said earlier, Emirates have not been shy in their boasts that they hold 5th freedoms to the USA and MAN would be the likely beneficiary of those 5th freedoms.