Thread: Airbus to get $6.5 billion

PARIS (Reuters) - The French state plans to inject 5 billion euros ($6.5 billion) into banks with the aim of financing airplane purchases to help European planemaker Airbus (EAD.PA), a French government source said on Sunday.

"There is indeed a plan to lend 5 billion euros to the banks to finance Airbus contracts," the source said, confirming an earlier report in the business newspaper Les Echos.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/pressR...50O1MX20090125

This will definitely help the company get back on it's feet.