Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
As a general rule, manufacturers are good at designing and building aircraft, but they don't necessarily have skills and expertise in repairing them, at least not as much as airlines do.
While Airbus will no doubt be involved in developing any necessary repair schemes, AF will be better equipped to supply the manpower and other resources to accomplish the repairs.
Well, the manufacturers have special repair teams for structural repair of stranded aircraft. That is done very often. Sometimes they do the whole work where the plane is stranded, sometimes they just get the aircraft repaired so that it can be ferried to some other facility.