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Article: United States: Airbus Agrees To Push Back Delivery Of One A380.
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- October 1, 2009
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Commercial aircraft builder Airbus has agreed with a customer to push back the delivery of an A380 superjumbo to January from December, a spokesman for the Toulouse, France-based company said Tuesday.
Airbus had planned to deliver 14 of the double-decker airliners this year. "We still plan to deliver more than 20 (A380) aircraft in 2010," Airbus spokesman Stefan Schaffrath told Dow Jones Newswires by telephone.
The Airbus official declined to identify the airline that has requested the delivery delay. However, a person with knowledge of the industry said that it is Singapore Airlines (C6L.SG).
Singapore Airlines has already taken delivery of 10 ...