Virgin Atlantic (VS, London Heathrow) has delayed taking delivery of six A380-800s ordered from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) as it mulls whether or not it still requires the world’s largest jetliner. Airline CEO, Craig Kreeger, said delivery of the jets has now been delayed from 2017 to 2018. The order was originally placed in 2000 with initial delivery in 2006. However, owing to the aircraft's own developmental problems coupled with the global economic slump which has hit Virgin's business hard, that date has been continuously pushed back as the British carrier tries to find a viable business model capable of supporting an aircraft the size of the A380. "It’s hard but not impossible to see a world where we want to take the aircraft," Bloomberg quotes Mr Kreeger as having responded to questions at the Royal Aeronautical Society. As part of the loss-making airline's turnaround plans aimed at reviving its fortunes by Spring 2015, Virgin is betting on the arrival of its first of sixteen B787-9s due from Boeing (BOE, Washington National) in September 2014, as its game changer.