Virgin has previously said it intends to take delivery of all six of the $300 million Airbus A380 planes it has on order, but would not see its first one until 2013 due to problems the planemaker has encountered in wiring the mammoth planes.

Something that matters to businesses is being able to get what they want when they want it. When you're talking about an airplane, that means you're looking a ways out, but six years before the first might show up? Airbus is looking at some very serious problems.

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