This thread is prime evidence in how Europe's airline industry has gone down the loo. You don't recognize harm to you when it stares you in the face. You would rather save a euro on a cheap ticket on a marginal airline than protect the established carriers that train and maintain by the rules.
Total rubbish. How do you define "marginal" airline? Are you suggesting the pan-European carriers are not compliant IAW...? Do you have any evidence for spouting this baloney?
Protecting the established carriers - every regional airline I've been on in the US, bar Virgin America, have been total rubbish. Old aircraft, uncomfortable seats, poor service (the last DL flight I was on, the cabin crew member at the back of the ERJ was using his phone during the boarding without a care in the world) and ageing and unorganised terminal facilities.