Which has led me to defend Vanair - that may or may not have had an operational issue last week, but are really not different from any other airline in Single European Sky and should, as a properly licenced EU airline, not be treated differently in public opinion just because they are Czech and not, say, Irish or French.
I totally agree. If any airline allows its aircraft to get airborne in appalling weather without workable alternates for the primary destination and with weather at the point of origin on a PROB40 to deteriorate below minima by the time of any likely return, I'd expect them to have the book thrown at them - Czech, Irish or French. It just so happens that in this case, it was a Czech airline which happened to think it was worth a go.