The reason EZY is doing well financially is because it's managing its cost base with flexi etc in its many guises. This needs to continue to meet the forecasts.
Given that Flybe has just announced it needs to reduce its operating costs, this further increases the pressure on cost across the industry.
Protecting new entrants would have been very good if it stopped flexi, but we're all stuck with that type of RHS pricing model now, and given that people are still queuing up, then £25k for the RHS sounds right.