Sabre Travel Network Signs European Full Content Agreement with KLM; Deal Enhances Sabre's Existing Global Relationship with On
March 20 2006 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Sabre Travel Network has signed a 'multi-year' full content
agreement with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM). The deal will give
Sabre Connected agents in Europe full access to the airline's
entire range of published fares and inventory, with no distribution
surcharge. It is in addition to KLM's existing and ongoing global
participation in the Sabre GDS. All the fares KLM makes generally
available through any GDS are available globally in Sabre. This
deal builds on that relationship - ensuring that additional fares
and availability offered through the airline's direct reservation
outlets and its website, klm.com, will now be available to Sabre
Travel Network's European travel agency customers, too. The
agreement also covers Sabre Holdings' online travel agency
businesses in Europe. These include Travelocity's UK and German
websites, lastminute.com and the leading Scandinavian website,
Resfeber. Travelers using these sites, and European business
travelers using the GetThere online corporate travel booking tool,
will have access not only to all published KLM fares and inventory,
but also to the airline's full range of web-fares and content. Bart
Vos, KLM's vice-president of e-commerce and distribution, said,
"Because of its presence in every available channel of travel sales
and distribution, we view Sabre not just as a GDS operator, but as
a key business partner who can add value to our product
distribution globally and, very specifically, right here in
Europe." Richard Adams, Sabre Travel Network's senior vice
president in EMEA, said, "We are delighted to sign this agreement
with KLM, securing enhanced content for our travel agency
customers. It also demonstrates how we bring additional
distribution value to our airline partners through ownership of
companies like Travelocity and lastminute.com. Because Sabre has a
multi-channel distribution strategy we provide the most efficient,
comprehensive, global and real-time electronic supermarket for the
buying and selling of travel." About Sabre Travel Network Sabre
Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides access to the
world's leading global distribution system (GDS). The Sabre GDS is
a ready-built efficient marketplace that connects suppliers,
including hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotels, with more
than 50,000 travel agency locations. Suppliers get access through
one single connection; travel agents get real time access to
thousands of travel products from multiple suppliers through one
source integrated into their businesses; consumers get access to a
global supermarket of the world's greatest travel possibilities.
Key brands of Sabre Travel Network include GetThere, the leading
Web-based corporate travel reservation technology, and Jurni
Network, the unique leisure travel agency consortium in the United
States that enables members to sell more products from preferred
travel suppliers using sophisticated market intelligence. Sabre
Holdings (NYSE:TSG) connects people with the world's greatest
travel possibilities by retailing travel products and providing
distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. More
information about Sabre Holdings is available at
http://www.sabre-holdings.com.
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