Emirates (ex-)A350s

The oil money is running out and so are their reserves of oil, the price of a barrel of oil has fallen about 60% in 18 months, and does not look like rising soon, they are probably pumping it out at just above cost. The Gulf states saw this coming that's why 15+ yrs or so ago we have seen them investing in tourism and aviation. They were / are spending their money as an investment for a life after living off of oil income ! But the problem is their income has been slashed !

Airbus can easily produce another 120 A380s, 4 to 5 years more production then call it a day. But then the manpower and hanger space can be used to increase A320 and A350 production. Less models, more efficient, more profit !

Dubai is just a city not a country / state ? Etihad and Emirates are from the UAE, Qatar is a different country A6 or A7 ?

Just comment - I was of course joking, similar to joking Baroque made. 
My comment was of course not meant seriously.

Without EK order the A380 is dead not important if the ceo or neo.

There are two possibilities :
The neo will NOT come - so those cca 120 frames are built and the "END of A380"
The neo will COME backed by significant EK order + some others might come too....

How the decision works financially is a question and all depends on the amount of pcs of the neo sold..... minus the value of the unused tooling already paid of AB has at it's facilities.
Anyway I do believe that the economy will be tight and AB will have trouble to make some significant profit on the A380neo. EK as a big customer will get low price i.e. the margins will not be huge.

Up to that AB is fighting with available personnel in TLS/HAM areas (as mentioned by stelthmanbob) for increase in 320+350 productions. So it might be financially sound to just be happy with the A380 line closed and transfer of all the resources to those without doubt profitable and running programs.

We will know the answer to those questions - as I believe - in up to a year

In my opinion, it is the other way around - that EK needs Airbus more than Airbus needs EK.

EK is one airline whose business model as it is really needs A380 class aircraft or have to consider downsizing to that level of the other two ME3 airlines. Flying this many seats in multiple frequencies to multiple long haul destinations would strain their operations especially with respect to infrastructure capacities, employee and maintenance costs and so many other things. And I'm with Tim Clark when he says that the A380 does what no other aircraft at present can give him.

Airbus on the other hand should be ready to pull the plug on the A380 programme at any time it deems it unsatisfactory to its bottom line. They should ask the question what is in it for them to spend money on developing an aircraft that has little market prospect when they can just as well use it for something else worthwhile. EK have already broken their trust big time with the A350 canx. They should be wary of building new business with the airline and be hard on driving the deal or just walk away. The money saved on A380neo development could be put to other uses like better supersizing the A350 to take the 777X head on, and the relieved engineering resources and production facilities can be used to boost output of more profitable aircraft as stealthmanbob pointed out.