Case Study: Global Airline achieves reliable, scalable cloud security and improved on-time performance with Palo Alto Networks

Airline soars by moving network security to the cloud

A large global commercial airline in the United States needed to improve on‑time performance and customer service after unreliable, multi‑vendor legacy firewalls caused outages, delays, and missed performance benchmarks. The airline set an aggressive digital transformation goal to migrate most mission‑critical applications from on‑premises data centers to AWS, scale costs with demand, and advance a Zero Trust strategy while modernizing legacy systems.

The airline partnered with Palo Alto Networks, deploying physical Next‑Generation Firewalls and VM‑Series virtual firewalls, Prisma Cloud, Panorama management, and GlobalProtect for identity‑driven access, using reference architectures and IaC templates to accelerate migration. The result: more reliable, higher‑throughput security across cloud and edge, many front‑end apps moved to AWS, reduced data center footprint and costs, strengthened threat prevention and Zero Trust posture, and improved scalability and customer experience with plans to migrate 80% of workloads to the cloud.