WTF Am I missing something here
Beside some punctuation marks ?
I don't understand what you are trying to say. There seems to be plenty of work on again.
Very few aircraft engineering jobs are advertised, - more often I would get an email or phone call. The calls certainly tapered off about the same time as the adverts did though.
I am seeing the same email activity now that we would have experienced about 4 years ago. I thought things were looking good within the industry.