The Purple Dinosaur Killer: How Wizz Air is quietly earning industry-leading profit margins

Unlike that Cretaceous cartoon character Barney, Wizz Air is not—despite the look of its aircraft—a purple dinosaur. But it is a purple slayer of dinosaurs. It was instrumental, for example, in killing Hungary’s Malev. And to this day, it continues to make life difficult for eastern Europe’s legacy carriers, all of which are struggling.