Case Study: Flybe achieves faster backups and minutes-to-recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

Europe's Largest Regional Airline Protects Reservation System And Company Data with Veeam

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline and the UK’s top domestic carrier, needed reliable, fast protection for hundreds of virtual machines that run its e-commerce site, email, databases and aircraft‑maintenance applications. The native backup tool was slow and limited—restores (especially Exchange item restores) could take a full day—and downtime was not an option for revenue‑critical systems.

Flybe implemented Veeam Backup & Replication to perform daily backups, automatically verify recoverability and run on‑demand test environments. Backup throughput doubled, enabling more frequent backups; Instant VM Recovery restored full VMs in minutes; Exchange item restores fell from a day to under five minutes; and Veeam simplified datacenter consolidation and upgrade testing—delivering faster recovery, greater confidence and award‑winning disaster‑recovery capability.

Flybe

James Richards

Virtualisation and Server Specialist