Case Study: Spirit Airlines achieves rapid, on-demand datacenter migration and hurricane resilience with Zerto

Zerto Helps Spirit Airlines Avoid Impact of Hurricane Irma with On-Demand Migration of Key Applications

Spirit Airlines, the eighth-largest carrier in North America with more than 400 daily flights and headquarters in hurricane-prone Miramar, Florida, needed to simplify data migration and disaster recovery after rapid growth expanded its datacenter footprint. Facing the risk of multi-hour outages that can cost about $500,000 per hour and the need to protect customers and employees during storms like Hurricane Irma, the airline required a fast, reliable way to move critical systems and third-party applications across more than 45 servers.

Using Zerto’s IT Resilience Platform, Spirit orchestrated an on-demand datacenter migration that completed in under three hours with no errors, dramatically reducing RPOs/RTOs and eliminating manual server migrations. Key operations—ticketing, reservations, maintenance, processing and manifests—remained uninterrupted, employees were back online the next day via virtual desktops, and the airline gained repeatable, geo-diverse continuity for future disruptions.

Spirit Airlines

Rocky Wiggins

CIO