AI case study

Southwest AirlinesSoftware development

On-premise systems, dispersed and brittle, bottlenecked every release. AI agents now run routine dev steps — hours cut to minutes.

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The story

Context

America's largest domestic airline by passenger volume, with 134 million annual passengers and IT systems spanning reservations, flight operations, and customer services that have grown increasingly complex over decades.

Challenge

Legacy infrastructure, dispersed across systems and costly to maintain, created brittleness in a business where any IT outage carries immediate...

Solution
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Scope & timeline

  • 2,700+ developers using Kiro agentic dev tool

The company

Major U.S. airline providing affordable, reliable air travel.

IndustryTravel & Tourism
LocationDallas, TX, USA
Founded1971

The vendor

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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ROLE IN THIS CASE STUDY

Provided cloud infrastructure, AI tools, and Kiro for agentic development to modernize Southwest Airlines' systems and accelerate digital transformation.

IndustryTechnology
LocationSeattle, WA, USA
Employees100K+
Founded2006

Use case

Southwest Airlines's Software development is part of this use case:

Code Generation
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4.3Moderate
4.2Moderatewithin Product Engineering

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