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May 11, 2023
Five AI/ML use cases that help airlines drive revenue – Part 3
By Richard Ratliff, Executive Scientist at Sabre Labs, and Sergey Shebalov, VP and Head of Research at Sabre Labs In Part 1 of this three-part series looking at advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)...
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May 10, 2023
Five AI/ML use cases that help airlines drive revenue – Part 2
By Richard Ratliff, Executive Scientist at Sabre Labs, and Sergey Shebalov, VP and Head of Research at Sabre Labs In Part 1 of this three-part series looking at advanced AI/ML applications for airlines, we explored the...
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May 9, 2023
Five AI/ML use cases that help airlines drive revenue – Part 1
By Richard Ratliff, Executive Scientist at Sabre Labs, and Sergey Shebalov, VP and Head of Research at Sabre Labs The use of advanced AI/ML (artificial intelligence/machine learning) technology has a rich and growing history in the...
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March 27, 2023
Trust is critical for success when climbing mountains…and for modern travel retailing
Some of my favorite hobbies require me to put my trust in other people – at times even putting my life in someone else’s hands, quite literally. I’ve already spoken of my love of skiing...
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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 16, 2023
Stuck in the middle seat: how agencies can take control of their future
Travelers dread the middle seat on a plane – they avoid it at all costs despite airline lotteries enticing passengers to choose it. The seemingly unfortunate position that passengers find themselves in has similarities to travel...
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February 15, 2023
Where will NDC take you in 2023?
NDC for travel sellers and corporate travel buyers One of the core promises of NDC is to provide travel sellers with expanded access to innovative content, which in turn, expands distribution reach for airlines. With a...
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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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February 2, 2023
Is the NDC juice worth the squeeze?
I recently sat down with industry commentator and CEO of Agentivity, Riaan van Schoor, to discuss the current state of New Distribution Capability (NDC) adoption in the industry. In the 20-minute interview, we covered how NDC...
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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....