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Airbus delays A-380 delivery to Malaysia Airlines

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - The Superjumbos are scheduled to arrive in the second half of 2011

Malaysia Airlines might receive its first Airbus A-380 aircraft with further eight months delay, in August 2011 rather than January 2011, as the carrier's CEO, Azmil Zahruddin, yesterday told "Dow Jones Newswires". In an email sent to the news agency, Zahruddin stated: "We have never requested for the A-380s to be delayed; all delays have been at Airbus' request". Initially delivery was scheduled...

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Rome, Italy, 11/27/2009 12:00
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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