My apologies to those with, what I term as, "Fitters" working in 145 hangar environments. I do acknowledge your jobs and indeed expertise in what you do. I was of course refering mainly to Line operations where Part 66 LMCM's are Certifying Mechanics (in the EASA sense!)
Boeing Eng - All we need to do is to swap "UK" into your missive on the shortfalls of recruiting new blood the USA.