Is Qatar delaying delivery of its remaining A380's?
The 7th A7- APG (currently registered as F-WWSD aircraft rolled out at Toulouse back in September but without engines fitted and is now "stored" still without engines
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aircra...ream/lightbox/
From the photograph storage of this airframe appears to be planned for the immediate future.
At this stage its not a case of delaying deliveries as much as it is a case of Airbus building the aircraft too early. Originally #6/7/8 were supposed to be delivered in 2016 and #9/#10 in 2017 but due to various cancellations and deferrals on the A380 program aircraft are moving up that even #8 would have been ready for delivery this year if things continued at this pace.
Emirates are taking aircraft earlier than originally planned and QR took#6 APF earlier than originally planned. My guess is that QR didn't want to take #7 and #8 aircraft early and obliged Airbus with original dates. If QR doesn't take them by the end of 2016 then we can consider that QR is deferring them.
Regarding QR's usage of the A380, there is a lot of misconceptions on why QR are not using it to Australia and the US (for the time being).