Case Study: Comair achieves $500K+ in annual fuel cost savings and a self‑service data culture with Tableau Software

Comair pinpoints major cost savings and instils new data-centric culture across workforce

Comair Limited, a major South African airline operating domestic and regional flights under its kulula.com brand and a British Airways franchise, was trapped in "Excel hell": thousands of daily data points lived in hundreds of ungoverned silos, leaving the BI team unable to deliver timely, actionable insights across the business.

By deploying Tableau to connect and visualize those datasets, and by launching a Data Stewards Programme and Comair Analytics to drive adoption, Comair created a self‑service, data‑centric culture and cross‑brand dashboards with near real‑time metrics. The work quickly paid off—Tableau helped identify more than $500,000 in annual savings from reduced APU fuel use (about $587,000/year), improved operational visibility and productivity, and freed the BI team to focus on strategic analytics.

Comair

Liezl Brouckaert

Business Intelligence Manager