Mobile App Transformation
for a Leading European Airline
A leading European airline partnered with We As Web to completely transform its mobile app experience — modernizing the Android and iOS apps, restructuring booking flows, and increasing test automation coverage by 40%. The result: a highly enhanced user experience and reliable three-week release cycles.
Discuss Your Project →A leading European airline losing travelers to its own web platform
In today's highly competitive air travel industry, mobile accessibility is absolutely crucial for maintaining customer loyalty and operational efficiency. A leading European airline, widely recognized for its extensive route network and commitment to service, undertook a significant digital project to completely transform its mobile app experience. The primary goal was to keep pace with evolving customer expectations, better support its expansion plans, and create an intuitive digital touchpoint for the millions of travelers it serves annually.
What prompted the project
To better support customers throughout their travel journey, the airline required a solution that could modernize the experience, release faster, and validate reliably.
Modernized Design
A responsive, user-friendly app that simplifies core processes like booking, check-in, and travel management.
Rapid Release Cycles
The infrastructure to support regular updates every three weeks, allowing the airline to continuously roll out new features and improvements.
Reliable Automation
Stronger automation processes to enhance app validation, error handling, and cross-device compatibility — ensuring a reliable experience for end-users.
Why an expert partner was required
The airline's digital expansion was hindered by its existing application, which presented three major roadblocks.
What We As Web delivered
To meet the airline's objectives, a strategic, multi-phased approach was adopted — involving code migration, a complete redesign, and rigorous automation enhancements.
Targeted Team Augmentation
A specialized team focused on both UI and backend operations, ensuring the project moved forward with precision and agility.
Tech Stack Modernization
80% shift away from legacy code to modern frameworks — Kotlin for Android, Swift for iOS.
QA Automation Implementation
40% increase in test automation coverage using Appium and Sauce Labs — much quicker feedback loops.
Iterative UX/UI Redesign
Completely restructured booking flows and improved navigation based on direct user feedback.
A mobile app that wins travelers back from the web
The ongoing transformation project successfully revitalized the airline's mobile presence — with measurable user experience and release velocity improvements.
The modernized design and improved performance have created a significantly more user-friendly experience that easily meets modern traveler expectations.
The increased automation coverage and reduced testing times have enabled the airline to maintain a highly reliable, consistent release schedule for new app updates.
The newly transformed app is now positioned to play a crucial role in the airline's long-term digital strategy, heavily supporting customer engagement across its expanding network.
Test automation coverage increased by 40%, drastically reducing the time needed for cross-platform testing and error detection across the airline's device fleet.
Native mobile, modernized for airline travelers
A native-first mobile stack — Kotlin and Swift for the apps, Appium and Sauce Labs for automated cross-device validation.
When the mobile app loses to the web platform, the mobile app is failing
A leading European airline watching travelers abandon its mobile app for its own web platform has a digital problem, not a marketing one. By modernizing the Android and iOS apps, restructuring the booking and check-in flows, and increasing test automation coverage by 40%, we gave this airline a mobile app that wins travelers back — and ships improvements every three weeks.
The result is a significantly enhanced user experience, a reliable release cadence, and a strategic foundation for long-term digital growth. For any airline held back by legacy mobile infrastructure, this is what a full mobile transformation looks like in production — native, modernized, and continuously delivered.