You have low cost carriers with the ability to weather tougher economic conditions compared with the likes of Iberia who have uncontrollable costs. These can't compete against the Ryanair cash machine but they can try and fuel and create a negative media frenzy.
When you read some of these media reports you can almost sense the writer suffers from anxiety associated with flying to the point of being phobic. Such a thought process when it later appears in print is not designed to appeal to the rational side of the reader.