Terms and conditions apply in several languages. Get over it. The airline business has changed. It's not the cosy business it was. They deserved to be kicked off. Whatever you think of Ryanair, you get what you pay for.
I personally am sick of Ryanair bashing. Frankly if you haven't got the message by now. Where the hell have you been?
You get what you pay for. No one out there can have any illusions that we are back in the day when airlines were cosy little cartels.
Back in that day, those students would have boarded a coach in Brussels and then caught a ferry to Lanzarote because they couldn't have afforded the flight. Actually, wait, they would never have got to the Canaries. Spain probably, by coach, no further.
They overreacted and paid the price. My sympathy is with the Ryanair crew.