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Insights Blog
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November 21, 2022
3 lessons from Star Wars that point to the future of travel retailing
Few movies have achieved iconic status and stood the test of time quite as well as Star Wars. In fact, the Star Wars franchise, created by George Lucas in the 1970s, is one of the most...
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November 17, 2022
Delivering software faster – Is Bazel the best build tool for monorepos?
Part 3 of 5 By: Dan Cohn, Sabre Labs One of the main reasons to develop software in a monorepo is for ease of reuse – not just source code reuse but also the community use of...
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November 10, 2022
Customer segmentation for airline marketing
At the AGIFORS (Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies) meeting that I recently attended in Toulouse, revenue management executives at two major airlines asked me: “What is the best way to segment...
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October 31, 2022
Video: Accelerating transformation and innovation with Google and Sabre Labs | Episode 5
Welcome to the fifth episode of Explore The Future of Corporate Travel, a video series that dives into the main challenges business travel consultants are facing today and how TMC technology can address them. While there is...
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October 26, 2022
How the right equipment holds the key to optimal performance
…and how it’s essential to airlines seeking to become advanced retailers Many cyclists, myself included, are (willing) victims of the mentality that the right number of bikes to own is n+1. In other words, I always...
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October 24, 2022
Video: Helping TMCs improve the booking experience through virtual payments | Episode 4
Welcome to the fourth episode of Explore The Future of Corporate Travel, a video series that dives into the main challenges business travel consultants are facing today and how TMC technology can address them. While there is...
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October 17, 2022
Video: Exploring the benefits of offers and orders for TMCs | Episode 3
Welcome to the third episode of Explore The Future of Corporate Travel, a video series that dives into the main challenges business travel consultants are facing today and how TMC technology can address them. While there is...
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October 12, 2022
How experimentation delivers results for athletes
…and how it can help airlines achieve their retailing ambitions I recently wrote about intelligent technology and its role in the airline industry, I looked at how the practical application of data science using Google Cloud’s...
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October 10, 2022
Video: Driving value through automation | Episode 2
Welcome to the second episode of Explore The Future of Corporate Travel, a video series that dives into the main challenges business travel consultants are facing today and how TMC technology can address them. While there is...
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October 4, 2022
Booking NDC content is easy in the Sabre GDS. Here’s why.
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October 3, 2022
Video: The TMC executive ‘wake-up test’ | Episode 1
Welcome to the first episode of Explore The Future of Corporate Travel, a video series that dives into the main challenges business travel consultants are facing today and how TMC technology can address them. While there...
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September 30, 2022
Realizing the value of NDC
Benefits that travel sellers will realize as they activate NDC A key benefit for travel sellers activating NDC is insights into the operational impact that NDC has and the ability to create an action plan to...
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September 29, 2022
New perspectives in airline forecasting
Cuneyd Kaya, Senior Principal, Data Science at Sabre Labs, explains how he and his team are exploring ways to make the planning and forecasting process for airlines more precise and effective. Cuneyd, how do you determine...
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September 22, 2022
How data helped me conquer the Leadville Trail 100 MTB
…and how it can help airlines become advanced retailers The tipping point I’ve worked in the travel industry for more than 15 years, witnessing first-hand many ups and downs and supporting customers through critical technology projects....
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September 19, 2022
Video: What we’ve learned since launching NDC
We’ve been live with NDC since March 2021 Shopping response times need to improve As we’ve completed integrations with airlines, we continue to see challenges with getting shopping responses back in an acceptable time frame. So,...
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September 15, 2022
AGIFORS Names Sabre’s Richard Ratliff as Fellow at 62nd Annual Symposium
Yesterday evening in Toulouse, France, the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (AGIFORS) named Richard Ratliff, Executive Scientist – Sabre Labs, as an AGIFORS Fellow at its 62nd Annual Symposium. AGIFORS is...