Pax on low cost airlines
Rubik is right about who travels on the low cost carriers. Whilst pax experience of these might be sometines that the chavs have been let loose, the CAA published a report about 18-24 months ago pointing out that the "working class" had not been liberated by low cost carriers, rather the middle class were simply taking 3 or 4 flight based trips whereas in the past they might have taken one. The Labour Govt. did not give too much publicity to the report as they had fondly believed that the low cost carriers were doing a service for their voters.
Thus, the continued growth of Ryaneasy, (is there a good anagram of that?) is dependant on the middle classes being prepared to spend their disposable income on travel.
The CAA also pointed out that Ryaneasy had not grown the market - they had simply nicked the growth that the chartered and legacy folk thought they were going to get.