Sabre

News / Technology

Apps, data analytics and other APAC corporate travel trends [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Linda Fox | August 26, 2015

Sabre has put together some research on trends in corporate travel in Asia Pacific with some interesting results around ancillaries and personalisation. Among seven key trends identified in the stu Read More

News / Distribution

Samba time for São Paulo developers - THack makes its Brazilian debut

By Sean O'Neil | August 26, 2015

The Brazilian city of São Paulo will host our first hackathon in South America, our third continent in as many months. THack São Paulo will run over the course of two days from Saturday 29 August t Read More

News / Distribution

Personalization, retailing, and the traveler data problem

By Viewpoints | August 24, 2015

Airlines that provide a fully personalized experience to their customers throughout the entire traveler’s journey will create a differentiated offering in a generic marketplace. NB This is a guest Read More

News / Distribution

Agencies threaten Lufthansa with GDS fee injunction, but secretly worry over domino effect

By Kevin May | August 19, 2015

With the introduction of the Lufthansa GDS surcharge less than fortnight away, details are emerging of some of concerns and threats being made behind the scenes. Yesterday, a group of European onli Read More

News / Technology

Five smartwatch capabilities on travel’s wish list

By Viewpoints | August 17, 2015

Since the release of the Apple Watch in April, those of us in the travel industry now have a better idea of how smartwatches are being used and who’s using them for travel. NB This is a guest artic Read More

News / Distribution

China joins list of countries avoiding Lufthansa GDS fee

By Kevin May | August 17, 2015

Two of the five most populous countries on earth have now joined the list of those exempt from a GDS fee to be imposed by Lufthansa. Brazilian travel agencies, which won a reprieve from the Euro 16 Read More

News

Sabre's IPO was spectacularly successful, time has shown

By Sean O'Neil | August 4, 2015

Sabre, the travel technology giant, saw its stock hit its highest point again today of $28 -- a significant jump over its $16 listing price at its initial public offering. (See its live chart.) Inv Read More

News / Distribution

Aeroflot moves to cut costs, scraps credit card payments via GDSs

By Kevin May | July 24, 2015

Nowhere near on the scale of recent shenanigans involving Lufthansa, but another major carrier is trying to make life difficult for some intermediaries. Russian flag carrier Aeroflot has changed i Read More

News

Travel tech giants desperately seeking multi-skilled individuals for new breed of job

By Linda Fox | July 20, 2015

Developers are often associated with poorly lit rooms, locked away deemed unfit for human company, but Sabre says it requires more of its employees these days. It's an interesting development and c Read More

News / Distribution

Lawyers seize on an alleged PowerPoint gaffe by a GDS representative

By Sean O'Neil | July 17, 2015

In New York this week, a set of 21 airline passengers filed suit against Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport, the world's three largest global distribution systems (GDSs) for airline tickets. The class Read More

News / Distribution

Lufthansa accused of not understanding business travel (or ignoring needs of corporates)

By Kevin May | July 17, 2015

Lufthansa Group has been invited to talks with a group of 100+ business travel agencies and corporate buyers to iron out issues surrounding the controversial GDS tax. The "high-level industry deleg Read More

News / Distribution

Lufthansa claims it is on solid legal ground over GDS tax move

By Kevin May | July 14, 2015

No surprises that Lufthansa's announcement in early-June that it would be imposing a Euro 16 levy on bookings made via GDSs has turned into one of the big issues of the year. The move has been labe Read More

News / Distribution

A defining moment for measuring ancillary revenue?

By Martin Cowen | July 14, 2015

IdeaWorks has released a summary of its latest look at airline ancillary revenues, saying that it will change its definition to include fare families. The headline findings from 2014 come as little Read More

News / Distribution

US Airways gets the October bench trial against Sabre it wanted

July 13, 2015

A US district judge in New York has scheduled US Airways' antitrust case against Sabre Holdings to go to bench trial on October 26. Sabre had instead sought a jury trial, which might have worked ag Read More

News / Technology

Hack to the future: dev and tech travel trends beyond the flux capacitor

By Sean Arena | July 13, 2015

I’ve just returned from our largest and most inspiring hack event to date, Destination Hack: London – held at the Impact Hub Westminster in Central London. NB: This is an analysis by Sean Arena, ex Read More

Most Popular
Latest Stories