Travel & Hospitality

Product & Project Management

Schedule & Pay Automation for the World’s Largest Airline

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

Business Need

  • Accurately and efficiently manage flight attendant and pilot work and pay schedules
  • Increase UI functionality
  • Ad-hoc report access

Challenge

  • 30+ manual processes
  • 15 SAS jobs with no developer to support
  • Current UI incompatible with new changes
  • Time-consuming process doesn’t allow for ad-hoc reporting

Solution & Results

  • International app sequence with pure domestic leg enabled $40M savings
  • Enabled 400K application sequences to deliver schedules as-needed to 20K pilots per month
  • Increased crew member schedule and pay accuracy and efficiency
  • Eliminated pilot assignment duplication
  • Reduced monthly manual work
  • Agile-certified team delivered new Crew Compensation Application, automating 30+ manual processes and integrating them into a single platform for all Business operations
  • Sunset 15 SAS jobs and converted them to JAVA for application inclusion
  • Upgraded UI to Angular 8 from 1.5, enabling new change and functionality acceptance
  • Enabled business users to run a query for access to ad-hoc reports on demand