[@Voltus_Ventus] I... don't think that makes any sense, in my opinion.

Even if the ship only has about 3 weeks or so left in it, it should still means it can fly through the raid even if it takes damage - the whole battle can't last more than a day, at most. Plus, if you drop into the city yourself to scavenge parts, it offers no immediate solution as to how you're going to get back up and fix the airship in a timely matter as long as we're still fighting. 

The point being, even if the airship is that close to coming apart, there's not much point in dropping down to get parts unless the airship goes out of its way just to pick you up - and this is during a major battle involving it, so that's unlikely to happen. So, considering you would likely have to wait for the airship to dock safely anyway before you can even get aboard again, it would be in fact much safer to just wait until we get though the fight so that we can then rest easy and take as much time as we would need to scavenge.

Of course, maybe you're suggesting the ship won't even last through the fight, which Renault most [i]definitely[/i] should've known about before dropping out of the airship. I can't say for sure. I'm certain that the train of thought in your mind makes perfect sense, but of course I don't have your mind.