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Posted Jun 9, 2010
Sabre Holdings is running a "stealth" prelaunch product campaign on Twitter called Red Is Coming, which says nothing about what it is except a "new generation" for Sabre-connected agencies coming "this summer." The company has some ads out along these lines, as well. Red apparently will be revealed as part of Sabre's announcement, due next week, of a global "total travel agency solution." We also assume that if a rumor about Sabre partnering with TRX is true, that agency automation provider is involved. But Sabre didn't confirm that when we asked ...
Posted Mar 16, 2010
Former Sabre executive Scott Alvis resurfaced this week at Amadeus to become senior vice president of client management in the company's Americas region airline IT and distribution business group. He reports to executive vice president Dwayne Ingram. Alvis spent 19 years at Sabre, after which he "ran his own travel distribution and marketing consultancy where he advised executives on strategy, marketing and technology planning," according to an Amadeus announcement.
Posted Feb 4, 2010
Sabre Travel Network announced a global pilot of a new work flow solution for the agency community. The new product will include a new GUI (graphical user interface), work flow management across multiple GDS, a customer profile, etc.
Posted Jan 27, 2010
An industry legend has departed one last time, as reported here by Terry Maxon of the Dallas Morning News. I never knew Max but certainly understand his influence. You're encouraged to post your thoughts...
Posted Jan 14, 2010
Sabre today announced a "long-term" full-content distribution deal with Tam. It marks the second such deal with a Brazilian airline that previously used limited GDS distribution, and the third such agreement in South America since last summer.
Posted Jan 13, 2010
The Interactive Travel Services Association commissioned PhoCusWright to produce a paper outlining the "role and influence" of the global distribution systems. You can get it here. For most industry participants, the paper will contain little new information. It looks more like a primer that GDS companies reportedly planning to go public can hand out to potential investors and analysts. If I can be permitted to stereotype, the GDS role is as familiar to such folks as is the dark side of the moon (not the album). ITSA executive director Art Sackler declined to answer my question on whether the paper's timing is related to IPOs, but nevertheless, I have to agree with him that such a paper "was long past due."
Posted Jan 5, 2010
Latin American carrier Lan Airlines selected Sabre to provide reservations and operational systems. Lan will follow such carriers as JetBlue and WestJet in deploying the Sabre Sonic Customer Sales and Service product.
Posted Jan 4, 2010
With the industry still lacking innovation and being driven by incentives, as well as travel management companies continuing to put all their eggs in the global distribution system baskets as it seems, technology providers are forecasted to face a downturn.
Posted Dec 10, 2009
Has your organization staged a virtual meeting in the past year? What's more, has your company bought or leased collaboration/virtual meetings tech. More importantly, are you managing the strategy, policy creation and compliance tracking for all virtual meetings technologies as part of your travel and meetings portfolio?
Posted Dec 3, 2009
WestJet CEO Sean Durfy today acknowledged that the challenges stemming from the switchover to Sabre's reservation system "are carrying on longer then we originally anticipated."
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