Very valid points Facelook.
sayeth the other tribe?
Behave yourself Mr Johnson, the sarcasm is overwhelming. It's a core Ryanair passenger model with any West coast based outbound sun routes that work. Now in the past that was Futura and Air Europa amongst others but Ryanair moved out of city markets into sun routes and Futura and Spanair went bust.
So they still have sun routes but no city breaks, realistically any city route that can support both east and west coast service with FR is a growth opportunity. The real money was never in passenger operations, it was cargo, which remains somewhat slumped sadly.