That 73 with the hole in the side was nowhere near "nearly written off." I've re-skinned bigger areas than that in routine heavy maintenance.
It was a waste of money and time having Boeing come out to assess it then I guess ?
I won't disgree, the job in itself was not the biggest any of us have taken on in our career, I am more concerned about the frequency of the Group's incidents and so forth that I have observed to be rising in the past 18 months or so. Routine maintenance is one thing, this type of damage and some of the underlying factors in this case is a different story..