United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) has announced it has deferred the delivery of four A350-1000s due to have arrived in 2018.

The carrier, which has thirty-five of the type on order from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac), gave no further details concerning their revised delivery dates.

In the same financial disclosure, United confirmed it had also accelerated the deliveries of twelve B737 MAX aircraft into 2019 and two B787-10 aircraft within 2019. United has orders for sixty-one B737-9s and fourteen B787-10s the first of which are due to arrive in 2018. It also has 100 B737 MAX 10s on order with the first due from late 2020 onwards.