Case Study: Six Flags achieves faster, more reliable mobile app experiences with Akamai Technologies

Six Flags - Customer Case Study

Six Flags, the world’s largest regional theme‑park operator, modernized its mobile app to deepen guest engagement—offering season‑pass features, real‑time ride wait times, interactive maps, ticketing and in‑park purchases. But crowded park networks caused severe bandwidth congestion and latency that degraded sensitive features (like the interactive map), risked API over‑consumption, and exposed the app infrastructure to security threats on peak days.

Akamai delivered web‑performance, cloud‑security and support services to cache and compress app assets at the edge, accelerate API calls across its global network, and protect the backend from abuse. The result: faster, more reliable in‑park app performance under peak loads, offloaded API processing, improved guest experience, and increased app downloads and usage—allowing Six Flags developers to focus on new features and guest‑facing innovation.

Six Flags

Sean Andersen

Director, Interactive Services, Six Flags Entertainment