Azul Brazilian Airlines

Latin America
Enterprise
Transportation

As a start-up in the Brazilian airline industry, Azul Brazilian Airlines needed to keep costs low enough to support value-priced airfares. It sought competitive advantage through a new endpoint architecture that could offer higher reliability and reduced administrative overhead. The IT team turned to Symantec for a solution that streams applications on demand to thin clients and manages those endpoints centrally. Results include a 40 percent reduction in TCO, an eight-fold increase in asset management efficiency and a significant uptime improvement.

Success Details

Applicable Services

Consulting Services
Education Services
Support Services

Platforms

Applications: Sky Speed (ticket sales), Sky Port (check in), and crew desk application
Endpoints: HP Compaq t5730 Thin Client with Micorsoft Windows XP Embedded
Databases: Microsoft SQL Server
Server Platform: Dell PowerEdge 2960 running Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Organization Profile

Azul Brazilian Airlines is a low-cost airline company founded in 2008 by David Neeleman, founder and former CEO of JetBlue. Azul is based in São Paulo and employs 1,000 people, with projections of 5,000 employees by 2013. The company started operations in December 2008 and has plans to serve Brazil’s main cities, using frequent, pointto- point schedules, with a fleet of 78 Embraer 195 jets by 2012.

Other Resources

Customer Success Story (PDF, Portuguese)