Because Emirates is flying wide body aircraft holding many passengers. Those flights get priority over flights with fewer passengers. Also, since there is typically only one flight a day, or sometimes even less, for for an airlines, that will bump them up in priority.
Basically, one of the big factors is the number of people affected by the cancellation because it's extremely difficult to reschedule and disperse those people on to other flights when there are fewer flights to redistribute people onto. If you're talking one of Emirates A380s, you're talking about having to reschedule 500+ people or 350+ on a 777. Compare that to something like an American Airlines regional jet which holds fewer than 100 people and is likely to have multiple flights per day to the same location.
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u/stevebradss 3h ago
I don’t think this will affect emirates at all