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Insights Blog
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May 19, 2022
Booking classes and fare filing—will those evolve too?
As you’ve probably gathered by now, IATA’s vision for a future based on an Offer and Order model is coming—and we’re all in. We’ve previously outlined that this future model will bring about a streamlining of...
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May 12, 2022
Sabre Team Members Come Together for Annual Global Giving Campaign
Sabre’s Give Together tradition of driving social and environmental change continues with the latest Give Together Global Giving Campaign. Once again, team members around the world came together in creative and engaging ways to support charities...
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May 5, 2022
Mapping Travels New Normal: Sabre Survey Reveals Summer 2022 Travel Trends
Vacation season is just around the corner. To glean insight into the travel industry recovery landscape as the busiest travel season of the year approaches, Sabre recently conducted both quantitative and qualitative surveys with airlines and...
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May 3, 2022
Does loyalty always have to come at a cost?
Data and automation are the perfect bundle for both passenger and LCC
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May 3, 2022
Embracing personal wellness
Sabre has transformed its approach to employee wellness, investing in a host of new resources to enhance the team member experience. To drive this, the Company has created the Sabre Wellbeing Advocate Network (SWAN), a council of a dozen...
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April 27, 2022
What’s the future of the PSS?
While there has been much talk and debate since IATA published their vision of a world of Offers and Orders, the Passenger Service System (PSS) is a critical piece of the airline ecosystem that will not...
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April 13, 2022
Why should airlines care about Offers and Orders?
In part one of our new series, we examined how transitioning to an Offer and Order model would greatly enhance the traveler experience by addressing key pain points. Now, we turn our attention to airlines, exploring...
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March 31, 2022
What does ‘Beyond NDC’ mean?
In 2018, when we formalized our NDC program, we named it ‘Beyond NDC.’ But how can you go beyond NDC when we haven’t even arrived yet? Our program is about more than just checking boxes on...
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March 25, 2022
For an LCC to take off, it must first get on its bike
Oliver Wigdahl, SVP LCC Segment, recently wrote a fascinating article on the future of LCC IT ecosystems. He discusses how LCC IT teams can evolve their tech strategies to produce better commercial results for their airlines....
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March 24, 2022
The Future of Travel Retailing: Elevating the Passenger Experience
Sabre is forging ahead in its ambition to modernize travel industry standards and accelerate retailing transformation, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with IATA in a shared vision for the future. Over the coming weeks, we will lead you step-by-step...
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March 16, 2022
Panel: The Future of Business and Corporate Travel and Technology’s Impact
Sabre SVP Global Agency Sales and Corporate Solutions Andy Finkelstein recently joined other travel industry leaders as part of an ITB Berlin Convention 2022 panel to discuss corporate travel and the role of technology. The full...
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February 28, 2022
What’s in store for NDC in 2022
Going Beyond NDC in 2022: Completing the Foundation for Offer and Order-based Retailing Since its inception, we’ve viewed our NDC program as a technical means to a more personalized retailing end. We named our program “Beyond...
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February 16, 2022
Unlocking innovation with NDC
Creating a more robust marketplace for personalized travel requires innovation across the three domains of retailing, distribution and fulfillment. Part of that innovation involves leaning into a technical and operational model based on Offers and Orders....
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February 2, 2022
Get NDC ready: strategies for jump-starting your journey
2021 was a big year for NDC, from content launches to new capabilities. So how can we keep up the momentum in 2022? In our December 2021 webinar–NDC is NOW–Rolando Philps, Senior Director of NDC Product...
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January 28, 2022
Sabre chose Bigtable and Cloud Spanner to serve more than 1 billion travelers annually
by Andrew Gasparovic Sabre processes more than 12 billion shopping requests and serves over 1 billion travelers every year. Through our next generation of AI-powered solutions, we are focused on optimizing the retailing, distribution, and fulfillment...
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January 18, 2022
IF NDC was an emoji, with Rita Visser of Oracle
The following interview was a spotlight session during GBTA 2021 in November. Our special thanks to Rita Visser for joining us at the Sabre booth! Kathy Morgan: For those who may not know you (I don’t know...