Originally Posted by
judolphin
RyanAir perhaps is "Budget Travel", but EZY is no more "budget" than WN, FL, B6, etc. It's a normal airline flown by normal frequent flyers all the time.
EZY's slogan, which you can read right on their website frontpage, is that they are "Europe's leading low cost airline". It is a member of elfaa, the "European Low Fares Airline Association" together with Ryanair, flybe, wizzair, vueling, bmibaby, jet2, transavia, sverigeflyg, and norwegian. It very clearly sees itself and presents itself as an LCC, not as a full service carrier. And it is also generally regarded as such by the flying public, whether they use them or not. It may be a much superior airline to FR but it still is an LCC.
If the issue is one of visibility, as has been suggested by a couple of posters in this thread, perhaps the budget travel forum could be renamed the low fare carriers and budget travel forum? imo, it would not be an inappropriate title given that a substantial number of posts in the forum are about LCCs?