Airline service for me depends on the length of th route and the price I pay. If I am flying Ryanair STN-DUB for one p than I really don't mind, it is a short flight on which so long as the plane is safe, I don't care what the service is like. I have always found ryanair's service good. Nothing special, but perfectly acceptable for the price. My problem with Ryanair comes from flying to airports that are often many miles from anywhere I want to be. STN, DUB, SXF (Berlin Schoenefeld) are just fine. Places like HHN and MMX (Malmo Sweden, aka Copenhagen) start to become a little far, particularly if you final destination is not the city advertised by ryanair (they do a decent job of providing coaches to a destination like at Paris and Glasgow-Preswick). This is where a company like Easyjet does a better job. I don't mind paying 20-30 EUR more to fly EZY to fly to Copenhagen CPH rather than Malmo because the money I save. MMX requires traveling by coach to Malmo, then taking a train or bus across the Oresund bridge to Copenhagen which can cost quite a bit more in terms of both money and time. I have never used HHN, but knowing that it is 120 km from Frankfurt is not much of an incentive to fly there, even if th price is very low. FR has done a good job of providing air service to places that do suffer from lack of competition such as Tampere Finland, Salzburg, and many French destinations. And their very cheap flight ex Ireland have given most irish travelers an inexpensive way to travel arcross the irish sea and beyond. Overall, FR provides a good low cost alternative when the price and the destination is right, yet Easy Jet, Air Berlin and others still beat them out when it comes to major and convenient airports.