Chugalug
I suspect that everyone involved at the top has decided the damn things will fly in service come what may
no-one will put this in writing and by "phasing" full time ops they think they can extend the time frame for some (possible) dreadful accident out beyond their time in service/retirement from the Civil Service/next election
what gets up my nose is that if we said "Fly them anyway" then everyone would know we're taking a risk and could probably monitor things carefully
As it is creeping acceptance means that there will be little or no formal extra monitoring allowed/paid for/listened to
Worst of both worlds IMHO
