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March 6, 2023
Easy does it: the importance of seamless fulfilment in a modern retailing world
In our airline strategy guide, we explored how Sabre’s vision is to provide airlines with a flexible offer and order ecosystem that intelligently enables them to retail and distribute a broad choice of tailored offers across...
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February 27, 2023
Non-personalization: the key to retailing success for airlines?
Ice-climbing, high-altitude mountaineering, whitewater kayaking, backcountry skiing, ultra-endurance running and mountain biking are just a few of the activities I enjoy during my free time. It would be easy for those who don’t know me to...
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February 3, 2023
Necessity is the mother of invention
I’ve always been fascinated by technology, even from a young age. I grew up in Eastern Europe, in what was then Czechoslovakia, and as a teenager at boarding school I loved nothing more than spending my...
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January 31, 2023
Choice: why more is sometimes less
In our airline strategy paper, we explored how Sabre’s end-vision is to provide airlines of all sizes with a flexible offer and order ecosystem that intelligently enables them to retail and distribute a broad choice of...
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January 10, 2023
Winner winner chicken dinner! How data science and experimentation can help airlines beat the odds
We’ve all heard the saying ‘the house always wins’. In a casino, the games are designed so that the house (i.e., the casino owners) will always net a profit, regardless of the successes of the patrons....
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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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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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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...
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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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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...