Well with all the carping about the price of fuel nowadays, and the unsustainably low price of airfare, I guess the cost to replace a window is greater than the expected lifetime future profitability of that plane.
Window crack. Call Allstate. The MD-80 just got totalled.
/pbz
If it's that easy I suspect we'll be seeing a lot of pre-flight "ball-pein hammer tests" on MD-80 windows in the new future.