I can assure you as someone who straps their ass to a 400 for a living, there are plenty more MELs. The scary bit is that many of the Captains I fly with are from a different day, where all the T's were crossed and the i's dotted.
Surely though, according to Dixon it is imperative to drive down the cost base. Whether this causes a hull loss is incidental as the P&L looks better in the years before the accident. I often wonder whether the "institutions" who support his one trick pony show would feel the same if their family was on the one that doesn't actually get there
Look through the numbers people!!