If you're in Europe, ryanair are steadily getting better and better. They still don't quite fit the bill, buit they're cheap and reliable and their dirty practices are getting less invasive
Ryan Air is "no bullshit" right up to the point when something goes wrong. If you're on a flight that is problem free they're fine, but if you happen to be so unlucky that you have to deal with delays or cancellations or perhaps just a lost or damaged suitcase then they're bullshit personified.
And are any other airlines any better than Ryanair for that? My last ryanair flight that was cancelled, I spent 3 hours in the airport and was flown home, and got lunch out of it, and when the flight was cancelled the estimated departure time was correct. Obviously, I'd rather get home, but that's not a half bad service. Comparing to Aer Lingus (another Irish airline that offer similar routes) I've been offered nights in a hotel because they decided to overbook my flight, and I arrived on time (~50 mins before departure to Dublin), not early. Which would you prefer?
are any other airlines any better than Ryanair for that?
Much better. Swiss, Lufthansa, SAS and Air Canada for example have all been extremely helpful to me in the past with re-booking flights, dealing with lost luggage and generally fixing things when things go wrong (even when the thing going wrong was my fault).
RyanAir have a fanfare if a flight is on time. Literally. If you land on time, the cabin intercom will play a fanfare and a message along the lines of "This has been another On Time flight!". And they're only on time in the first place because they tend to inflate the durations they advertise: they'll say a 2h flight takes 2h 15m, then act all surprised when you hit the tarmac after two hours.
They're on time because their business model depends on them having minimal turnaround times, and they mostly fly out of small airports with relatively little chance of a holdup (and avoid Heathrow like the plague) and don't have to worry about flight connections. Empirically comparing "on time" performance is an inexact science at best (and most of the delay factors, including those that make a flight regularly take ~15 mins longer than an ostensibly similar one, are outside an airline's control), but efficient flight ops are to Ryanair what effective search is to Google.
