If they can't fly their way out of a paper bag what do they spend 2-3 years in flight school doing? There was me thinking they were learning to fly.
There's a difference between 'learning to fly' and this chap did. I think the comment about the paper bag is referring to how newly trained pilots may (apparently!) be too reliant on technology to fly the aircraft.
And therefore they fly that airline because at the end of the day no matter how cheap the ticket if the airline flys old aircraft that fail often with poorly skilled pilots they don't fly with them.
Being in a country with a well established regulatory body (CAA) I can't imagine safety is a concern of the average consumer, I'm sure people will almost always go for the cheapest knowing they all meet minimum safety standards.