thats the point:
Person 1 - "Can you believe Ryanair want to introduce Standing Room areas on Aircraft"
Person 2 - "No way is he crazy"
Person 1 - "Must be, but then again his flights are reliable and cheap"
Person 2 - "pfff I have never flown with FR, I would prefer to fly our national Airline in comfort"
Person 1 - "I suppose, but I flew from STN - PFO for 75e return, only took some hand luggage. The flight was comfortable, onboard service was reasonable and we arrived 20mins early to PFO"
Person 2 - "Thats a great price, when I flew LGW-PFO It cost me 560gbp return and I thought I got a good deal
"
Person 1 - "FR is like a bus service, get on fly get off easy"
Person 2 - "ya know I think I will give them a go, cheers m8"
A long but not unusual conversation to show to some doubters how even tongue in cheek bad publicity, can quickly change into "bums on seats"....
Its basic marketing strategies taught to
PR peeps at kindergarten.....