1) what's wrong with Embraer's - pay a visit to their factory and look at the construction methods. Have a look at their factory in the Gers in France, putting together fuselage sections and tell me that's not what the French would call "bricolage".
2) Why, corklad, do they need to extend the runways? Are you suggesting it's because of the A380? The A380 has take-off and landing performance as good or better than (depending on cricumstances) a 747-400 according to the data provided by Airbus to the airline I work for. If that's true, why are extensions needed?
3) Name the routes on which Ryanair and easyJet DIRECTLY compete? Now tell us all why that is.
4) As for attitudes, at least easyJet crew give off an attitude of actually enjoying their work. I've yet to experience that with Ryanair.
As for the comments about how "pretty" an aeroplane is, God help us. Why does that make an aircraft any better than any other? Because it's nice to look at?!
And if you bother to read anything about Boeing and Airbus you'll se they are as bad as each other so don't pretend otherwise.