I think the Low Cost label was always misplaced. It advertised the idea that it was no frills. It was a flying bus. There are no free lunches; nothing free, etc. However, the pax forgot the concept was really about hi profits. To sustain that everything would be cut to the bone within allowable limits. I wonder if the neverland wonderland has worn a bit thin. If the profits are so huge the pax might ask themselves how that can be unless I'm paying too much. And then those who are paying very little must ask how can the profits be so huge if I'm paying peanuts. It is not McDonalds, so how is it done? Someone has to pay; either it is the customer or the workers.
You don't get owt for nowt.
There's high value and there's low cost and they ain't the same thing.