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Delta will also defer delivery of eight 737-800 aircraft until 2008.

As a result, the airline said it would make further staff reductions and defer delivery of new aircraft.

While its competitors have continued to defer delivery of new aircraft, Southwest was accepting a few new planes as soon as three months after Sept. 11.

Because of her pulmonary status, the decision was made to defer delivery because there were no signs of active labor.

It was possible to defer delivery in the expectant monitoring group for on average 9.6 days after randomisation, resulting in an average gestational age of 39+3 weeks.

To cut costs, Delta said it planned to ground all 15 of its MD-11 aircraft and defer deliveries of new Boeing planes in 2003 and 2004.

Southwest has asked Boeing to defer deliveries on five 737's due this month, and the airline will almost certainly seek more delays.

"For Qantas to pull or defer deliveries is a major, major step," said Derek Sadubin, an analyst at the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation, a consulting company in Sydney.

A recent survey by the Swiss bank UBS estimated that nearly 30percentt of airlines worldwide were likely to defer deliveries, with only half of the airlines polled having secured financing for aircraft deliveries this year and in early 2010.

The company did not say which customers would not be taking delivery of A380s this year, but China Southern, Air France-KLM, Kingfisher of India and Qantas have all said they would defer deliveries.

Among them, Qantas, the largest Australian carrier, which has had a 30percentt drop in premium seat sales, is cutting capacity by delaying the delivery of four Airbus A380s and is in talks to defer deliveries of an undisclosed number of Boeing 787-800s.