National carrier Malaysia Airlines will be compensated by Airbus for the delay in the delivery of its A380 super-jumbo planes, a top official from the European firm said today.

"Absolutely, there will be some compensation for them," Airbus chief operating officer for customers, John Leahy, was quoted as saying by state Bernama news agency.

"We have to come up with the date when they want the aircraft, then we will look at it," Leahy said, referring to the amount of compensation.

He said delivery dates and the compensation would be ironed out in talks with Malaysia Airlines within the next few months.

The carrier has an order for six A380s and has said that delivery delays would not hurt its recovery plan.

"We are having on-going discussions with Airbus on the compensation and the new delivery date. No decision has been made yet," Malaysia Airlines said in a statement to Bernama .

Leahy also confirmed that there were no cancellations from Malaysia Airlines for the orders.

"I don't see any indication that they wouldn't be taking the aircraft. We just need to put in the dates," he said.

Deliveries of the A380, the world's largest commercial airliner and the cornerstone in Airbus efforts to catch up with Boeing, are now two years behind schedule because of production problems.

Last month the struggling aircraft manufacturer saw strikes of thousands of Airbus workers across Europe after announcing 10,000 job cuts in a bid to solve a crisis caused mainly by problems with its A380 superjumbo jet.