Originally Posted by
esscee
Why would any manufacturer allow a competitor to use its facilities under licence? When one is struggling don't feed it a bone!
Because they can't fill the demand and the whole airline industry has a problem. As I said, it happens in other industries. The most famous example is that AMD used to make 8086 microprocessors to fill demand Intel couldn't. Interestingly, they retained the licence which allowed them to later enter the market with their own designs.