But as mentioned BKK will be 5 daily A380 (some with 2-class) + daily B77W (DXB-BKK-SYD-CHC should be A380 by next year) and flydubai (other company but with connection to EK) will start double daily flights to BKK on 29th November. Due to this total capacity to BKK will be increased.
FCO will be double daily A380 instead of twice daily B77W and daily A380. If they put a 519 seater A380 to FCO it will be 1.038 seats a day compared to 1.209 (2x360 + 1x489) which is just a bit less capacity than today.
QR after buying a 49% stake of Meridiana will have more influence and opportunities in Italy going forward and they put their Dreamliners to FCO and MXP which passenger might prefer compared to a B77W.
Situation in Turkey and Istanbul (several terror attacks in the past months) is clear and the cancellation of SAW comprehensible. Besides a A332 (which will leave the fleet soon) would fit much better on that route than a larger B777.
2nd daily to LIS was introduced this January but as it seems the demand is not there (right now) to justify a 2nd daily flight.
Maybe in the past EK doesn't matter that much if a route could not fullfill their expectations and they had the time to wait to make this route profitable. Today they reduce in advance once they see it doesn't work (like any other airline on this planet).