I see Airbus are having none of it per press comment at the Paris Airshow
What it says in public and in private are too very different matters.
Its shareholders will have significantly other views knowing full well that an order of this size will come along once every 10 years if that.
Lets see assumming a €25-30 Million price tag would be €7.5 Billion kept in Europe V US.
BBC NEWS | Business | Europe considers Airbus soft loan
In not bidding Airbus rules itself out of delivering anything to FR until about 2020 at the earliest.....can't see that happening as nobody at FR / Airbus and Boeing is likely to be in the same job by then.