Case Study: Cathay Pacific achieves 67% faster software development and 50% infrastructure cost savings with Amazon Web Services

Cathay Pacific - Customer Case Study

Cathay Pacific Airways is a major Hong Kong–based international airline serving nearly 200 destinations with about 146 aircraft and roughly 18,500 employees. The company relied on physical infrastructure and manual processes for its website and booking engine, which slowed innovation, risked revenue and brand reputation when performance suffered, and forced costly overprovisioning to handle peak demand.

Cathay Pacific re-architected its web platform on AWS using Red Hat OpenShift and cloud services (EC2, VPC, RDS, ElastiCache, S3) with DevOps automation after a successful proof of concept. The move delivered no downtime, 100% reliability of refactored web applications, 67% faster software development, about 50% resource savings from dynamic scaling, and improved performance, cost efficiency, and developer satisfaction.

Cathay Pacific

Lawrence Fong

General Manager, IT Solutions