Thanks to everyone who has replied so far ^

The idea of a Wiki was raised and if that was a success then a forum to follow. I like wikis but to my thinking, this is the opposite of how wikis are created. You can't ask questions on a wiki - firstly you have a discussion forum and then knowledgeable people contribute to FAQs/Stickies and then eventually a Wiki can be created.

Yes, there are other forums on the internet for RY/EZ. Does that mean that FlyerTalk should not have a forum too? It seems like a strange logic to me. Surely there is room for a high quality forum like Flyertalk to get in on the discussion?

A few people have pointed out that RY/EZ don't have a frequent flier program, but as I pointed out in my opening post - these forums are as much about the discussion of the airline as anything else.

A few people have commented that there is already a budget travel forum and there isn't much discussion of RY/EZ there. Just because people fly on LCCs doesn't mean they are budget travellers. A lot of people use LCCs for business or leisure because they fly to convienient airports or perhaps (shock horror) because they are a whole lot cheaper and just as good as the competition.

A lot of the posts which oppose the new forums sound a bit condescending to be blunt, a kind of "if you want to talk about THAT sort of flying then turn right and go all the way to the back of the plane and talk about it down there". I kind of expected a bit of that though, I'm not too proud to say that I ride in the cheap seats - at 5 Euros all inclusive for a flight I'll ride in the jump seat if I have to.

As has been pointed out, more than 100,000,000 passengers per year fly Ryanair and easyJet. That's a lot of potential growth for Flyertalk. From a purely business point of view, it would cost very little to create the forums and increase your google rank - I can't see how it would do any harm. The LCC business model is growing fast, FT needs to move with the times.

"If you build it, they will come".