My access to the BBC is BBC World here in Thailand. I will watch out for the program with great interest.
My experience with Ryanair ended several years ago. During regular business trips to the UK I was based in Bishops Stortford and with family in Cornwall, the Stansted to Newquay service was appealing. However (and very obviously) a week long visit to Cornwall entailed at least one checked bag to carry a change of clothing, toilet kit etc. As a businessman I carried my briefcase with whatever documents I was working on at the time, passport etc. and I carried my laptop computer with all its bits and pieces in a separate hand carry bag.
It all worked splendidly in the beginning. I would book the best fares I could get given the notice my job gave me for a trip to Cornwall - I think the best deal I ever managed was £5 in one direction and £36 coming back.
Then one day, after something like a dozen return trips over the years, a child with granny glasses at check-in Newquay (for the return leg) told me that I could only take one bag into the cabin. Either my laptop or my briefcase had to go into the hold. This came out of nowhere. 5 days earlier I had flown from Stansted with two items of cabin baggage with no problem whatever. I had to empty my briefcase and stuff the contents in pockets and into the computer bag and send my empty briefcase to the hold. There has to be some Irish logic in this.
Needless to say that was the last time I used Ryanair. I went back to using the train. And guess what? Given all the additioonal charges now levied by Ryanair, it is actually cheaper to travel from Bishops Stortford to Truro by train and the time difference (allowing for a taxi from Newquay to Truro) is within 20 minutes.
Bye bye Ryanair!