Application Rationalization for the World’s Largest Airline

Leading airline offering 6,700 flights per day to ~350 destinations across 50+ countries
$17B+ in revenue

Top 5 IT initiative to find continuity across applications used by legacy organizations following merger
Consolidate business requirements for operational optimization
Deliver new functionality and integration to ensure business capability on one platform for all business, operations, and flight data
Determine applications to be used moving forward and what applications were to be retired to gain efficiencies and save money

Teams from both legacy organizations to access certain applications
- Access only capable within legacy organization
No documented processes or forms in place
Differing legacy platforms and technology stack needed in-depth analysis and BRD’s updated
Multiple technology and business gaps
Extensive and detailed QA Testing
Require airline experience and technical capability

Quickly assembled a team of 20+ airline experts (PMs and BAs, featuring Agile PMs and Scrum Masters) to manage reconciliation of and access to applications for the merger
Reconciled 1253 of the 1420 applications (88.2%) over 63 weeks, enabling 20,000 users to perform their jobs
Program Managed all streams of work providing weekly status updates to senior leadership
Team was spread throughout other key projects and currently have deep presence on the Flight Operations Integration program