American's talks Airbus A330neo jet are over, boosting Boeing

Airbus has lost a contest with Boeing to sell wide-body jets to American Airlines, dealing a blow to the planemaker’s efforts to boost A330neo orders in the US. Talks with American over the re-engined model have ended, Airbus said, saying it was unwilling to match the price Boeing offered. The carrier had been studying the A330neo and Boeing 787 Dreamliner as a possible substitute for an old and no-longer-wanted deal for 22 of Airbus’s A350 twin-aisle aircraft. American said it hasn’t yet made any final decisions on the aircraft order. American had planned the A350 as a replacement for Boeing 767s and 777s that it’s slowly retiring. But the carrier put off delivery of the A350s in both 2016 and 2017, and said earlier this year it was looking at Boeing’s Dreamliner and the A330-900 instead. <br/>