You little beauty!!! Airbus v Boeing. Bring it on, Bill. Grant SYD QF lafrance@verizon.net wrote: > France lends 1.2 bln euros for Airbus superjumbo > > > Friday March 15, 3:13 PM EST > > PARIS, March 15 (Reuters) - France's transport ministry has agreed to extend a repayable loan worth 1.213 billion euros to Airbus France to help develop Airbus's (EAD) new superjumbo, the A380. > > "The advance has been agreed to at market rates and will be reimbursed as deliveries take place," the ministry said in a statement on Friday. > > It added it would also help other big firms that had struck partnership agreements with Airbus to develop the plane. > > Airbus is 80 percent owned by EADS and 20 percent by Britain's BAE Systems (BA). > > > Roger La France > EWR > CO767 or ewrgateman on IAM