As a user of FT, I don't give too hoots about the FT 'brand'. To me, this is an issue for IB not for FT users.
You have put forward as an argument that EZY, etc.. is just like any other airline. What I was doing was refuting that argument. Most European LCCs are NOT like legacy airlines and other full service carriers, something which is far less true of US LCCs. For instance, unlike full service carriers (and most US LCCs), most European LCCs (including Easyjet and Ryanair) are strictly point-to-point carriers, they do not interline, they have very different policies in case or irrops and, crucially for the current discussion they do not have an FFP. This is not true of all Euroepan LCCs. Air Berlin, for instance, although it is generally regarded as an LCC, has an FFP and is generally much closer to full service carriers than Easyjet or Ryanair. If there was a request for an Air Berlin forum, it seems to me that it would be an easier one to accommodate provided the traffic justified it (which is not the case, imo, at this stage).

Easyjet, however, is a different kettle of fish. I have nothing against Easyjet per se. In fact, I do fly Easyjet and am generally very happy with them. The question is not there.

A proof that Easyjet (or FR for that matter) is not just like any other airline on FT is that you could not create an Easyjet forum in the airlines programs section of FT since they do not have a program. You would have to create it under Travel and Dining (and, truth be told, if we were to go in that direction, a sub-forum of budget travel would seem to me the most obvious place).

I would not have an absolute categorical objection of principle to the creation of an Easyjet or Ryanair forum per se. But, since they do not have an FFP, they are "non-core" and, as such, subject to a somewhat higher threshold of justification than core forums similar to other non-core fora.

For now, it seems to me that budget travel fills the function of repository of discussions on Ryanair and Easyjet pretty well. It also seems to me that there is sufficient overlap in discussions of relevance to several LCCs for it to be a loss to fragment those discussions in separate fora rather than keeping them together in one common forum. It may well be that we end up in a situation where FR or EZY or any other airline outgrows BT. But we are not there yet, imo.

The only argument which, in my eyes, has a little bit more weight is the visibility issue (it would not occur to me to post issues relating to LCCs in budget travel) but that can be easily solved by slightly tweaking the name of the forum.