Sabre Travel Network Announces New Generation of Tools for Shopping, Pricing and Managing Fares; Corporate And Leisure Suites En
September 11 2006 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Sabre Travel Network, the world's largest and most rewarding
marketplace for buying and selling travel, today announced its
latest foundational elements for end-to-end corporate and leisure
solutions. These broad improvements to the Sabre Air suite,
including the Sabre MyFares fare management system, core pricing
and shopping capabilities and customizable fare displays, are the
key building blocks of an end-to-end product suite that leverages
open systems technology to speed and greatly enhance shopping and
pricing beyond any other GDS offering. Sabre Travel Network remains
keenly focused on revolutionizing its air shopping and booking
systems to take advantage of the full content provided by our
airline partners. Sabre led the industry in moving core shopping
and pricing functions to open systems that enable innovation by
providing far greater flexibility and speed. Now, the Sabre Air
suite provides a new generation of enhanced shopping and pricing
capabilities, enabling travel agents to more quickly find the best
and most accurate fare options for their clients. The benefits of
these new capabilities were instrumental in compelling major
agencies to move business to Sabre in recent months. More broadly,
all Sabre Connected agencies worldwide are being upgraded to the
new system. Sabre Air enables travel agents to quickly and easily
meet their customers' demands for the best airfares. Sabre Air
finds the lowest published fares more frequently, delivers more
alternative itineraries with more fare options, enables more
efficient distribution of negotiated fares and prices itineraries
more accurately than ever before. A recent independent study
conducted by Topaz International revealed that agents who use Sabre
Air found the lowest fares as much as 21 times more often than
other GDSs. In addition, when finding the lower fares, Sabre Air
delivered an average of approximately 50% more in savings. "The
data from this study clearly shows that the move to open systems
for shopping and pricing is delivering tangible results - the type
of results that provide the differentiated service Sabre Connected
travel agents and their customers expect when shopping in Sabre,"
said Chris Kroeger, senior vice president for North America, Sabre
Travel Network. Another key component of Sabre's new end-to-end
foundation is Sabre MyFares. This new, state-of-the-art fare
management system combines robust fare-filing capabilities with a
graphical interface that enables agencies to quickly and easily
load their private fares into Sabre. With Sabre MyFares, agents
improve productivity and accuracy, thereby reducing the cost of
managing and distributing their private fares, while at the same
time improving the quality of their service to customers. By
combining Sabre MyFares with Sabre's leading low fare shopping
capabilities, agents have easy access to their preferred content,
as well as to the best tools to comparison shop across both
published and private fares. "Through our Efficient Access
Solution, Sabre Connected travel agents gained complete and easy
access to their negotiated rates, along with the full-content
available in the Sabre GDS. Sabre MyFares builds upon this access,
significantly streamlining the workflow of agents, particularly
those who serve the corporate market where productivity and
customer response times are critical," said Kroeger. Sabre has also
introduced advanced pricing and rule display capabilities, allowing
agents to ensure that they are accurately pricing itineraries while
viewing the associated fare rules via customizable, simple and
easy-to-interpret rule displays. With Sabre Air's new capabilities,
Sabre Connected agents have enhanced capabilities to streamline
their end-to-end air sales process, deliver even stronger value to
their customers, and help further differentiate their offerings in
the marketplace. 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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