Airbus withdraws bid on Moroccan deal

Published 9:00 pm Thursday, August 4, 2005

Royal Air Moroc wants to buy four long-range jets to replace its aging 757s and 767s, and they won’t get them from Airbus, because the Euros have backed out of the bidding.

Key Quote, from David Dufrenois, Airbus sales manager for Morocco: “The terms of this tender are not clear and bid deadlines are too short.”

Here’s a copy of one Reuters story about it:

http://today.reuters.com/investing/FinanceArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2005-08-05T115449Z_01_L0536189_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-AIRLINES-MOROCCO-AIRBUS-DC.XML

Here’s another Reuters version:

http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=17366

And here’s what AFX had to say:

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/08/05/afx2174703.html