Totally agree with the other comments re the quality of staff - at the moment all is fine but if the new rulers follow their normal route things will change and it won't be for the better. Needless to say, everyone hopes that they might have learnt from their previous customer service 'ideas' and leave things be this time...
As for an engineer leaving, I think you'll find the move was caused by the Cabair deal - as with most people who have worked with/for certain outfits, they don't want to go there again. And the engineers are just important as everyone else even if they are mostly grubby and hidden away in a hangar!
Oh, and bose-x, I assume nothing re your 'aviation providence', I've known you too long to have to assume. Now that you help out at Spanhoe and have 'moved' from airfield to airfield before that doesn't quite make you an industry expert. Surely you don't really believe what you write about yourself...