Emirates gives a hand to troubled A380 program with 20 new orders including an option for 16 more

The 757 is a nice plane but the 707 was the Dawn of the Jet age. My friends and I would climb up on the roof of one garages in the early evening and watch as they flew over our development lined up to land at what is now JFK. In those days the airlines markings were on the bottom of the wing and we would to try to guess where the plane was coming from. Pan Am, TWA, United, and a bunch of other carriers we never heard of from overseas. One buy one almost directly over head they would turn for Idlewild airport from 4 in the afternoon until about eight it was almost a constant mix of 707's, DC8's' Connie's, Electra's and a mix of Reciprocal engine planes. When the wind was right which was most nights it was a plane buff delight.

I thought the 797 was going to be a replacement for the 757, no?

the B797 as announced in June 2017 will seat 220 and 270. See http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/20/news/companies/boeing-797-paris-first-peek/index.html

You said "Airbus wanted at the very least an A380neo". Did you mean Emirates?

The published price and the price they report in this article are the same as the contracted price is never released. I assure you Airbus will be lucky to recoup their costs on this sale. It has been reported that they lose money on every A380 they deliver. Given many different way manufacturers account for costs and how they write different things off it is impossible to say what they actually lose on each plane. It was also reported that Airbus was distributing these loses across other lines in order to keep the A380 line open. If true it is also the reason they will not see a profit from the current sales and back order of their A350 sales.

Any airline that might have interest in the A380 will demand a steep discount even for one or two planed fully knowledgeable that Emirates is receiving steep discounts to take the planes. While the A380 has been somewhat profitable for some of the few airlines flying them. Even with low gas prices it is the Humvee of the airlines with four gas hogging engines.

I guess that's why Singapore already parked their first one and why the order book is overflowing.... just saying!

That's a bold claim, and highly disputable. There's probably no single best airplane, but it would be hard to find a classification in which the A380 IS the best. (It's not a bad plane, but really, you're comment isn't much help, and doesn't add anything.)