Ireland's Ryanair has overtaken Lufthansa as Europe's biggest airline by passenger numbers.
Lufthansa's 109.7 million passengers last year fell short of the 117 million passengers reported by low-cost carrier Ryanair last week, a 15% increase on the previous year, as Ryanair pulled in passengers with low prices.
Any airline that gets me across Europe for $15 US (one way) can be as rude as they like. But Ryanair have always been a courteous and professional company to deal with. Delta and American charge me much, much more and I get the bad attitude free.