mahatmacoat
Grounding those 2 aircraft would cause flight cancellations as well as delays because at present Qantas has no spare long range aircraft (due to the delay in A380 deliveries).
I do not want to stuff up joe public's travel plans but it is imperative that these aircraft have all the necessary inspections to ensure that they are safe. Qantas has been very lucky that the aircraft that fordran wrote about didn't have a depressurisation - lives would have been lost. No amount of spin from DC. GD, PG, MAJ, etc could justify lives being lost because of their desire to save/make money.