AIRBUS has suffered another cut to the delivery schedule of its flagship super-jumbo.

The aircraft manufacturer will hand over only 13 of its flagship super-jumbos this year, after an airline said it wanted to reschedule the handover of its aircraft. But the latest revision to the A380’s delivery timetable will not hit jobs at the company’s Broughton plant, near Chester, where the wings for the aircraft are made.

It is the second revision to the delivery target for the super-jumbo this year.

The workforce at the site had been ramped up in anticipation of a big rise in A380 output this year.

But, in May, the aircraft manufacturer said it expected to deliver 14 A380s in 2009, down from the 18 it had confirmed as recently as mid-March.

However, the company was able to avoid redundancies on the Broughton wing production line, although the site has lost around 250 jobs, mostly agency workers, this year.

Airlines suffering from the steep drop in airline traffic are pushing back deliveries of the giant jets they have ordered in a bid to preserve cash.