France welcomes aircraft export credit deal

PARIS, Dec 22 (Reuters) - French ministers said they were pleased that aircraft-producing nations had agreed a deal on export credits, in a move that will cool long-running tensions between airlines over the system used to sell aircraft. Airlines have long been lobbying for a change to the rules, which allow the home governments of U.S. manufacturer Boeing and Europe's Airbus -- France, Germany, Spain and Britain -- to give export financing to some, but not all carr