Old Nelson, I agree with you totally Ryanair seems to be getting so bad.  We are going to start to use Easyjet and fly Gatwick to Barcelona as Gatwick is just 20 minutes away and at least we get a choice of four flights a day not the 6am one from Stansted with Ryanair which means leaving Kent at about 2.30am or the evening one which means that we arrive in Tortosa about 11.30pm and have to rely on A VERY GOOD FRIEND (you know who you are ;)) to fill the fridge until the next day.  I am still hoping that the airport is built near Castelleon and that Easyjet get to fly there.
We are coming over in March and I need to bring some items over for the house and when I worked out how much it would be with Ryanair and the added charges it wasn't much less that Easyjet and then when I added the airport parking charge at Stansted (our son can take us and pick us up at Gatwick) it was cheaper to use Easyjet and the flight times are so much better but I will miss the smiling faces of Ryanair's cabin staff !! ;D