Case Study: Ryanair achieves 90% faster bookings with Couchbase

Reinventing the customer experience with blazing fast bookings

Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline group carrying over 153 million passengers a year on 2,400+ daily flights, faced a bottleneck in its mobile experience as bookings slowed to over five minutes and cached data became hard to manage across platforms. The company needed faster, consistent iOS/Android performance and better offline capability without a major app re-architecture.

By embedding Couchbase Mobile and using Couchbase Server with integrated sync and N1QL, Ryanair sped up bookings by about 90% (from more than five minutes to under 30 seconds), cut booking network traffic by 87%, enabled automatic data sync and reliable offline access, and achieved higher customer ratings — all while letting developers change business rules without rebuilding the app.

Ryanair

Joaquim Oliveira

Head of Mobile Development