Governments put offer to EADS over A400M

Article reports that European governments have demanded a share in any future export profits from the troubled A400M military transport programme in return for providing a €3.5bn rescue package.

The seven customers - France, Germany, Britain, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and Turkey - who have pledged to buy 180 of the turboprop aircraft yesterday delivered their 'final and best' offer to EADS, parent of the A400m's maker, Airbus on the 16 February 2010.

ESO: Background information: Talks to save A400M end in deadlock http://www.europeansources.info/record/talks-to-save-a400m-end-in-deadlock/

Airbus: Aircraft families: Military: A400M http://www.airbus.com/en/aircraftfamilies/military_aircraft/a400m

Deutsche Welle, 19.2.10: A400M buyer nations put paid to additional funding http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5267917,00.html

---