There's an item on today's Flightglobal (11th July) to the effect that the new selectors are to be told to give no credit for "extra" capability. So the so-patriotic Pols & Co are definitely going to fix a 767 "win" this time round ...
If NG "lose" (having already "won") they could always pull out and then offer USAF the A400M, which should have got airborne before Christmas - if Marshalls have got the Herc test-bed airborne at last, that is ...
just a thought, as the rest of this thread (like the "contest") is going round in circles, innit ?