Airbus SAS, struggling to end a financial crisis sparked by delays in the A380 superjumbo jet, right, postponed the freighter version of the plane after customers dropped or deferred their orders.
"We have rescheduled the A380 freighter program," Maggie Bergsma, an Airbus spokesperson, said yesterday without giving details of the new plan. United Parcel Service Inc., the plane's only remaining customer, said the move took it by surprise. Airbus, the world's biggest maker of commercial aircraft, plans to cut 10,000 jobs over four years and sell or find partners for six factories due to A380-related losses.
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