What I find crackers about the whole affair, is how ryanair effectively get away with goverments paying for what they should! For example you can claim 150e accomodation and food during tr, ryan dont pay for this, the country does via dodgy accounting. Same with passes, farm it out to the pilots 'company' it gets expensed and the country effectively foots the bill...
And airlines moan that the middle east carriers get subbed by their sheiks, looks like every single eu country is subbing an irish carrier unwittingly...