The radio news was repoting this morning that Branson is meeting Airbus today. (I'd thought that it was tomorrow, but same difference.)
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...323915,00.html has a reference to this. We shall no doubt have to wait and see, and then decipher the spin from all sides.
[Edited to add:]
It sounds like it was a very one sided conversation.
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/030521/80/e0imt.html