Originally Posted by
EDML
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.
Given everything else that goes on there I wonder if Airbus even have the space/hangarage at Blagnac...(? genuine question) it might well be more convenient for them to shuttle people as and if needed up to Paris and use AF facilities at CDG than to tie up AB resources and space at Toulouse.