Virgin Australia - Load Control Migration, Sabre to Amadeus (SOA OPSB Decommissioning)

The Opportunity

Virgin’s legacy (Sabre to Amadeus) integration platform was out of vendor support, prone to outages, costly to maintain, and made releasing new products or features extremely difficult.

The opportunity was to replace this with a modern event-streaming platform based on Confluent Kafka.

Our Approach

After a detailed analysis of existing SOA information flows and the design of a complete microservices replacement, we implemented the new data streaming solution while coordinating closely with third-party vendors and Virgin stakeholders and SMEs.


Services were tested end-to-end on the Kafka platform and deployed using parallel runs to validate accuracy.

Project Outcomes

A stable, fully supported replacement platform utilising Confluent and Kafka to deliver 10–20% faster information flows than the legacy SOA environment.

Key Services, Technologies and Toolkits

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