I am too very happy with cheap airlines including Ryanair. It is true that their customer service may not be brilliant but they make it more affordable to travel. I think it is a reasonable compromise that benefits us all.

Some people are also mad, because flying is somewhat bad for a stable climate.

It sucks to be treated poorly, and to get nickel and dimed on every little thing until you just end up paying more than flying a less shitty carrier. Framing it as the petit bourgeois are mad that the proles can afford to fly ignores who loses in a the race to the bottom, and the misery it begets.

Which is why you can pay more to be treated better. But some are upset that paying more isn't the only option.

It's not really that simple. When standards go lower paying for the old standard often becomes much more expensive. There aren't really ideal economic markets so choices are not on a perfect spectrum to match consumers, rather aspects of production or in this case limited route rights mean a low price option eliminates the choice one wants.

> Which is why you can pay more to be treated better.

Being treated with respect is now a premium service? And how exactly does a company profit from acting like an asshole?

I fly exclusively on low cost airlines, and Ryanair is the only reason I use the "exclude airline from search results" feature. Their labor practices are also abhorrent.

I don't think thats true, what jokes are you talking about specifically?

I always used Ryan Air a while back when I didn't have much money and needed to get somewhere. I dislike them now because of the removal of hand luggage by default. Additionally I find they're not even that much cheaper than alternatives nowadays which makes it harder to put up with their smaller seats and in general worse service.