You forget that the planes are funded by government, and government has bigger things to worry about that saving a few million on a plane. Importing planes exports tens of billions from the domestic economy, and ensures all future planes will result in such an import. Money circulates in an economy, so when you export it, it circulates in someone else’s economy instead! You also upset the balance of payments very significantly. An export of £10 billion or £20 billion is not going to be in isolation from the rest of the economy, and the economy will take priority every time!
I think we all appreciate that. Although I would point out that the government has no money of it’s own. It’s tax payers money.
Jobs in this country are of course important, although if aircraft were built here under licence that would partly offset any job losses. Together with ongoing maintenance.
There is of course a precedence for this in the Automobile industry.
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