MSNBC - The Airbus Showdown: "It's time to stop the subsidy game. The Bush administration proposed a pragmatic bargain: all past subsidies would be accepted; future subsidies would be banned. Airbus plans a direct competitor plane to the 7E7 (to be called the A350) and wants more subsidies. These would be prohibited. If Boeing countered the A380 with an improved version of its jumbo 747, it would be barred from subsidies."