How many seats a week on EK and EY? If EI-A330-300's idea about an ATR is correct then the idea about Qatar seems far fetched.
Cozy F, the DAA press release combines passenger numbers to/from Middle East with North Africa. I assume this is to protect commercially sensitive information on the Middle East route. We don't know how many of those 57,000 are using EY and EK.
Still no dedicated business / first class lounge for EK. You'd have thought they'd have had one by now.