{"id":414405,"date":"2026-04-26T18:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ryanair-ceo-wizz-air-airbaltic-bankruptcy-warning\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:25:05","slug":"wizz-air-and-airbaltic-might-not-survive-the-winter-says-ryanair-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=414405","title":{"rendered":"Wizz Air And airBaltic Might Not Survive The Winter, Says Ryanair CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255010\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ryanair\/\"  >Ryanair<\/a><\/span> Chief Executive Officer, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032463\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oleary-ryanair-keep-us-shares\/\" >Michael O&#8217;Leary<\/a><\/span>, is calling that two European carriers could fold by the end of the winter, with the ongoing fuel crisis continuing to affect airline bottom lines. O&#8217;Leary has pointed the finger at Hungarian ultra-low-cost carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256102\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wizzair\/\"  >Wizz Air<\/a><\/span> and Latvian airline <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255264\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbaltic\/\"  >airBaltic<\/a><\/span>, suggesting that the airlines could diminish cash reserves by the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continued unrest in the Middle East has seen the price of fuel rocket up, and airline share prices drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1964,396,476,120,10373,1368,1223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbaltic","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-europe","category-fuel-crisis","category-ryanair","category-wizz-air"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414455,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414405\/revisions\/414455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}