Five days of European budget-airline coverage: a Starlink-fuelled high, a results-day reckoning, and a competitor set that spent the week underwater.
610 articles tagged Starlink as Wizz announced free onboard Wi-Fi — "teams up with Elon Musk and overtakes Ryanair." June 8–10 sentiment ran +2.5 to +3.0, the strongest stretch of the window.
Annual results landed: net profit down 99% to £1.1m after a £43m Iran-war hit, guidance withheld. Wizz sentiment collapsed from +3.01 to +0.06 in a single day — 943 articles, the week's biggest volume spike.
Ryanair averaged −1.67 across 460 articles — an Italian regulatory investigation and fee controversies kept 76% of its scored coverage negative. easyJet held mildly positive at +0.8.
Average article score (scale −5 to +7) across all successfully analysed coverage, with the positive / neutral / negative split underneath.
Daily average sentiment by brand (lines) against Wizz Air article volume (bars). Hover the chart for day-by-day detail — and watch every line fall off a cliff on June 11.
How each brand's coverage splits across the −5 → +7 scoring scale. Wizz is twin-peaked: a big +5 cluster (Starlink, routes, partnerships) against a −3 cluster (results, Iran-war disruption — capped at −3 by the prompt's conflict rule).
Top narrative themes by tagged article count. C-suite visibility led the week, but Starlink alone out-tagged route launches, fleet news and sustainability combined.
Volume + average sentiment. The UK dominates volume but runs coolest; CEE markets love Wizz — Slovakia averaged +3.48.
Most prolific outlets. Britbrief and MSN UK skew negative; MSN Italy is the friendliest big outlet at +2.16.
Highest-reach stories (≈67M potential reach each) at the extremes of the scale.