Air economics when skies are grey

Aerospace and defence companies are gathering at the Paris air show this week in the midst of an economic crisis that is crippling the industry.Plane manufacturers face a battle to get some customers who have placed orders to pay for them, and as affordable finance is hard to come by, one solution is to lend their customers the money.Nigel Cassidy reports from Le Bourget.

BBC | June 15, 2009

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