Gosh, don't some people love to knock Ryanair? I have no axe to grind and, having passengered with them on many positionings, I have always found the service perfectly satisfactory. I think we should remember that this airline has:
1. created a lot of jobs for pilots and others in the industry,
2. opened up a number of new destinations,
3. provided consumer choice where little existed before,
4. made shedloads of money,
5. issued a wake-up call to the fossilised end of the industry,
6. brought a dynamic into the field of aircraft utilisation.
On this last point, the fast turn-around is not something that the present generation of low-cost carriers conceived. The BAC 1-11 was designed in the 1960s to have the capacity to turn round in fifteen minutes - it was the original "bus-stop jet".
I share just about everyone's dislike of the current recruiting policy and, yes, Michael O'Leary is a bit of a showman in front of an audience or when the cameras are present. But he's an Irishman, for Heaven's sake, it's in the genes!
Sorry to rock the boat but I believe that the low-cost carriers have made our world a far more interesting place.