Case Study: Hawaiian Airlines accelerates development and cuts costs with Microsoft Azure

As its development team grew, so did its development cycle. Here’s how Hawaiian Airlines delivered more features faster to the business

Hawaiian Airlines, a major U.S. carrier with a distributed development team spread across Hawaii, the mainland, and India, was facing slower, less productive software delivery. Its public website and booking/check-in systems suffered from long branch downloads, six‑hour builds, outgrown source‑control tools, high operational risk and manual, error‑prone processes that delayed feature delivery.

To fix this, Hawaiian migrated its developer tooling to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services on Azure with blndspt Consulting in a rapid 60‑day effort and adopted Team Services Git. The move cut costs about 50%, eliminated VPNs and single‑point risks, and dramatically sped work—branches sync 500% faster, builds 400% faster (from ~6 hours to ~90 minutes), branching times down 90% and latency down 30%—enabling one‑button deployment, greater agility, and higher product quality.

Hawaiian Airlines

Scott Cheney

Senior Director, Applications Development