Scaling Data in Aviation: Inside Brussels Airlines’ Data Strategy
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Tom Holsteens & Kris Peeters
How Brussels Airlines transformed a broken data setup into scalable data products, enabling self-service and real business impact.
How do you transform a broken data landscape into a scalable, self-service data platform?
In this episode of The Data Playbook, Kris Peeters sits down with Tom Holsteens to unpack how Brussels Airlines rebuilt their data foundation from the ground up.
Coming out of the pandemic, the organisation faced a classic problem:
A “spaghetti” data warehouse
No ownership of data assets
A central team becoming the bottleneck
💡 You’ll learn:
Why most data platforms fail (and how to fix them)
How to introduce data ownership in business teams
The real difference between controlling vs. BI
How to reduce bottlenecks with hub-and-spoke models
A real use case: cutting food waste by 30% with data
Why perfect data quality is a myth
This is a must-watch for data leaders, engineers, and anyone scaling data in complex organisations.
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