Having flown for Ryanair until just over a year ago and now flying for a european flag carrier I can say this is no surprise:
I back up the statement that pretty much every Ryanair pilot has their own ANR headset (every captain I ever flew with)
The level off policy of reducing rate of climb to 2000fpm @ 2 to go and 1000fpm @ 1 to go worked a treat.
The SOP stating that SID stop altitudes must be in the FMC before departure contributes too.
When I compare this to my current operator's SOPs, we MUST delete all SID hard altitudes because the pilots might forget to press 'alt intervene' and level off by accident
There is no real level off policy to speak off, pilots are urged to use their common sense when in busy TMA's which works most of the time but is much less effective.
As much as I disliked being based in the
of nowhere as a dodgy contractor, the whole industry could really learn something from Ryanair's SOPs