A while back, the powers at be at Emirates made what is now realized to be a rather costly mistake in some negotiations with American Airlines regarding the revenue sharing agreements. To say the least, this went very bad. The long and short of it is AA decided not to continue ANY sort of agreement with EK (Unfortunately, this also led to our reciprocal agreements with staff travel also being removed) To make a long story short, this was a tremendously bad decision on behalf of EK. Shortly after this happened, Qatar joined the OneWorld, which has exasperated the already bad decision. Fast forward to today, and I can tell you that not only are passenger numbers down, but the yields in Dallas are through the floor. The only reason the A380 is there is to try to pull market share back, which will not happen more than likely. Unfortunately, with zero agreement with American Airlines and that not coming back any time soon, Miami is not viable as there is nobody to connect EK's pax to onward destinations and the market to the city itself will not sustain itself. Dallas is in a world of hurt as well. As what was said in a different, unrelated forum, "you reap what you sow EK"