Software Solutions Index

ACARS Management

How your airline manages ground and air messages directly affects your users’ productivity and the type and timing of information you make available to your operation. Ultimately, it hits your bottom line.

With Sabre® AirCentre™ ACARS Manager, you can maximize data link messaging capabilities. ACARS Manager processes air and ground messages in all pairings — air-to-ground, ground-to-air and air-to-air — between ACARS-equipped aircraft and designated ground-based systems. Ground-to-ground messages are also processed.

ACARS Manager supports both up-linked plain-text and preformatted messages from airline systems to specific aircraft as well as to a group of aircraft. It also supports down-linked messages from the aircraft to airline personnel and any ground-based systems offering information such as maintenance (for engine trend and other aircraft condition monitoring data), actual times, position reports and updated weather or flight plans.

Agency Management

When using an agency storefront within the e-commerce environment, management of those agencies is key to your success. Agency Management, a solution that can be integrated with SabreSonic® Web, offers an integrated agency management tool that tracks bookings for non-BSP agencies, automates the sales reporting process and gives you visibility to credit liability of your agency community.

Agent Sales Report

Can you efficiently track, monitor and account for sales activities? Agent Sales Report provides expanded data capture and reporting qualifiers to support these activities.

Aircraft Situation Display

Better manage your flight operations by bringing together relevant flight information to improve fuel economy, reduce environmental impact and better route aircraft for optimal efficiency.

Our aircraft situation display solution, Sabre® AirCentre™ Flight Explorer, is a decision-support tool that enables operators and dispatchers to proactively address irregular operations or rapidly changing conditions. The integrated display of flight information, weather and other operational data makes our solution a central part of operational decision making and planning.

Airport Operations

Airspace Flow Management

Do your dispatchers, operations controllers and ATC coordinators have a complete view of ATC delays, diversions and cancellations? Sabre® AirCentre™ Airspace Flow Manager can help provide more definitive answers for managing air traffic control programs.

Flight operations departments increasingly value aircraft situation display tools for the maintenance of operational control. However, they have been missing the ability to see what is happening in the national airspace system — and more importantly, what the impact will be on their operations so they can preplan for the event. With the information provided by Airspace Flow Manager, operators can proactively manage their flights to reduce delays.

Alliance Management

Our alliance solution fully supports the three global alliances, enabling their membership requirements, as well as powering interline and codeshare agreements.

Our solution integrates alliance services across partners in areas such as inventory, loyalty, schedule management, reservations and departure control. Additionally, we connect partner airlines to enable a consistent traveler experience through our platform for real-time data and application integration.

Bottom line, our solution is well positioned to support any airline's alliance or partnership ambitions.

Cargo Management

Cargo operations holds lucrative potential for airlines as global commerce expands and the need for timely shipments grows.

Sabre® AirVision™ Cargo is comparable to the most sophisticated passenger revenue management system. It is a complete air cargo management solution that estimates available cargo capacity by flight and then optimizes that flight's revenue. You gain a competitive advantage, increased earnings and profitability.

Codeshare Management

You can better manage the many codeshare flights you have, both as a marketing and operating center with Sabre® AirVision™ Codeshare Manager.

This solution reduces the time required for the codeshare management cycle and ensures codeshare flights are properly timed.

Commercial Intelligence

Significantly increase your competitive position in the marketplace with Sabre® AirVision™ Commercial Intelligence. You will be able to seamlessly integrate all of your Sabre AirVision data and provide every commercial area with a graphical and holistic view of market performance. This allows your team to use data to drive decisions.

The commercial intelligence solution is ideal for new market tracking, incremental revenue opportunity identification, problem market management and major event planning.

Your team will be alerted in real time to competitors’ adjustments in capacity, frequency and fares. It also provides market-level alerts such as RASK, ASK or market share, as well as allows you to track the competitive response.

Corporate Management

Can you offer tailored corporate programs through your direct channels, treating large, medium and small businesses uniquely? Corporate Management, a solution that can be integrated with SabreSonic® Web, provides you with the necessary tools to run your corporate loyalty program.

Credit Suite

Losing revenue through use of credit cards? You can quickly recover revenue from credit card sales. Let the Credit Suite, an option of SabreSonic® Ticket, help you qualify transactions for the best interchange rates and incorporate card-scheme fraud prevention tools.

Crew Management

Crew and labor-related costs are consistently among the top two expenses for airlines. How you manage these costs will directly impact your bottom line.

Increase your bottom line today with Sabre® AirCentre™ Crew. This set of industry-leading crew management solutions allows you to better manage your crew, control operating costs and improve the crew working experience. Our crew solutions are designed to support all airlines regardless of their business model or market.

Crew Operations

In crew operations, the goal is straightforward: ensure you have a set of legal and qualified crew for each flight. Our crew operations solutions enable full support for crew scheduling, crew tracking, alerts, crew notification, crew pay and disruption recovery.

Crew Planning

Our crew planning solutions facilitate long-term planning down to monthly planning. Leave planning address the bidding, awarding and management of leave requests. Training management provides support for identification and assignment of training courses. Pairing and roster optimization provide support for building an optimal set of pairings and crew rosters based on your specific business rules and constraints.

Crew Services

The morale and engagement of your crewmembers are critical components to your operation’s success. Our crew services solutions can increase your crewmembers’ quality of life by allowing them to more easily access and manage their work schedules.

Bidding, including roster bidding (line and preferential), vacation, vacancy and training bidding can be easily managed through our solutions. Real-time trip trading and crewmember mobile applications are available and designed to improve overall efficiency and provide your crewmembers with the flexibility they desire.                                                                                                                                                

Departure Control

SabreSonic® Check-in is the world’s leading departure control system, consistently boarding more passengers than any other system while maintaining top system reliability.

Our solution delivers leading departure control — passenger and aircraft — capabilities to facilitate efficient customer processing both on and off airport grounds. From check-in via the Web or mobile phone, to automated boarding control at the airport gate, you and your customers benefit from the most advanced technology.

SabreSonic Check-in is supported by the best GUI (also used for reservations) for better productivity, team member efficiency, faster adoption, reduced training costs and increased targeted merchandising opportunities, resulting in more revenue.

Developer Tool

Can you develop user-friendly graphical interfaces and automated processes to quickly solve complex business problems? The Developer Tool, a component of the Sabre® Qik® Solution, enables you to build solutions that are easy to develop, customize, maintain and deploy in multiple environments.  

Electronic Flight Bag

Technology onboard aircraft has steadily improved to the point that virtually every major component of the aircraft is monitored. Yet paper has continued to be present inside the cockpit in the form of checklists, flight plans, manuals and airport approach procedures — all part of the pilot’s flight bag.

The electronic flight bag (EFB) can change that. The EFB brings technology to the flight deck by utilizing electronic versions of important documents. From simple solutions such as soft copies of required manuals to real-time weather displays, electronic approach plates and airfield diagrams, the capabilities of the EFB have grown rapidly.

Sabre® AirCentre™ eFlight Manager is a comprehensive solution designed to leverage our expertise in airline operations, consultative processes, industry affiliations and project management to provide you with an end-to-end EFB program.

Emissions Management

Airlines around the world have increased their focus on tracking CO₂ (carbon dioxide) emissions in order to provide greener operations. Some of these efforts recently have been driven by the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) legislation that began in 2010 and is especially important for airlines flying into or out of any member E.U. states. The reporting of CO₂ emissions, its verification by an authorized verification agency and submission to the identified regulatory authority is an expected process of emissions management.

Sabre® AirCentre™ Emissions Manager helps airlines collect, validate and store carbon emissions data so they can comply with the requirements of the European Emissions Trading Scheme and other government regulations.  Emissions Manager automates the data collection, verification and reporting process though defined integrations with airlines operations, airport and reservations systems.

While supporting the EU-ETS requirements, the solution will also be enhanced to manage other requirements likely to arise from pending legislation in countries around the world.

Fares Management

Pricing strategy is a crucial aspect to maximizing your revenue. Sabre® AirVision™ Fares Manager equips airlines with the ability to manage fares in a competitive and timely manner. The system’s powerful data query tools help pricing analysts examine relative market data — including competitors’ changes — to make the right decisions at the right time.

Fleet Management

Using an inadequate tool to make fleet decisions can have a big impact on your overall profitability. You need a solution that optimizes profitability while maintaining the operational integrity of your schedule.

You need the leading solution in the marketplace today, Sabre® AirVision™ Fleet Manager.

This solution is a multi-purpose decision-support tool that uses global optimization techniques to maximize an airline’s network profitability by matching fleet types to the forecast demand on individual flights.

Flight Operations

Flight operations involves preparing and moving aircraft, crew, cargo, passengers and baggage through controlled airspace to a destination airport. It's a complex undertaking that requires managing many resources.

Sabre® AirCentre™ Flight is a set of solutions designed to support your end-to-end flight operation needs. You can better manage the complexities of flight operations with our solutions for:

• Movement Control,
• Flight Planning,
• Aircraft Situation Display / Flight Tracking,
• Load Planning,
• Aircraft Datalink Communications,
• Irregular Operations.

Flight Planning

Our sophisticated yet easy-to-use solution, Sabre® AirCentre™ Flight Plan Manager, fully automates and optimizes the entire flight planning process. It combines complete data support services — NOTAMS (notice to airmen), weather, airport suitability and airspace restrictions — with real-time alerts to enable you to manage by exception. With our unique 4-D cost optimization functionality, route, altitude, speed and time are simultaneously analyzed to create an optimal flight path that accounts for fuel costs, CO₂ emissions and delays.

Frequent Flyer Management

Do you want to build and promote your brand?  Do you want to identify and reward your loyal customers as well as influence new customers to choose your airline for future travel? Frequent Flyer Management provides you the facility to run your frequent flyer program with a robust set of tools to effectively manage your unique loyalty offering.

Gate Management

We have two decision support solutions that improve gate management efficiency.

Sabre® AirCentre™ Gate Manager is an automated, real-time flight and resource-monitoring solution that supports your airline's airport day of operations. The solution monitors flights and provides graphical decision support for the control of flight ground operations at airports. It constantly evaluates real-time data, analyzes changing conditions, and automatically detects potential problems. Solutions can be automatically or manually calculated, visually planned and examined, and fully or partially disseminated.

Sabre® AirCentre™ Gate Planner is an airport gate planning solution that combines the experience and judgment of gate planners with an automated decision-support tool to create efficient gate schedules. Airlines and airports use Gate Planner to support large and small operations. Gate Planner provides models that virtually replace manual data analysis processes and significantly reduce the time and effort required for planning and scheduling airport gate resources.

Graphical User Interface

The effective and most productive use of any airline reservations system is heavily dependent on the graphical user interface through which users perform activities in the system. Efficient usage of the SabreSonic® Res and SabreSonic® Check-in solutions is ensured with the deployment of the Interact interface. This real-time GUI dramatically simplifies the call center process and efficiently facilitates airport operations.

Customer service perception is enhanced through innovative technology and by providing valuable customer information to airline staff at the right time so the airline staff can better service the customer.  Additionally, the Interact interface allows faster check-in and shorter lines increase traveler satisfaction, resulting in repeat business.

Ground Support Equipment

Our ground support equipment (GSE) solution helps you determine the correct amount and type of ground support equipment needed for efficient airport operations. By using Sabre® AirCentre™ GSE Planner, you can automatically forecast equipment requirements and run what-if scenarios based on flight schedules and GSE coverage.

Group Revenue Management

Group bookings can be a great way for you to fill seats that would otherwise have gone unfilled. However, if not handled properly, these discounted bookings can dilute revenue. To manage these bookings today, most airlines manually process these group requests with a revenue management department.

With Sabre® AirVision™ Group Manager and our Web-based reservations solutions, you can automate and simplify the group booking process.

Hub Management

Our hub management solution provides airport resource allocators with the ability to easily plan and manage every task and activity associated with an aircraft turnaround.

Sabre® AirCentre™ Hub Manager enhances airport handling operations with sophisticated models and user interfaces that intelligently display updated flight and task information. Hub Manager alerts users of operational exceptions and overseas assignments.  It tracks task completion and manages staff and equipment availability.

Inventory

Our comprehensive inventory solution leverages our leading revenue management capabilities to protect and grow revenue. That means you can meet the needs of the latest, real-time revenue management practices.

Load Planning

By better performing your required weight and balance tasks with our load planning solution, Sabre® AirCentre™ Load Manager, you can achieve the best possible flight performance. Our load planning calculation helps you determine the optimal center of gravity on your aircraft for maximum fuel efficiency. Baggage and cargo locations on the aircraft can be prioritized, resulting in expedited unloading for quicker baggage delivery or transfer to a connecting flight. This provides a seamless experience for your customers, ensuring that their baggage arrives with them at their destination.

Loyalty Management

With our corporate, agency and frequent flyer loyalty solutions, you’ll have the tools to build those customer relationships, no matter whether your customers are flying for business or pleasure. And the size of your airline doesn’t matter either, because we have solutions that range from basic (and easy to access) to sophisticated and customizable.

Maintenance Planning

Programs, requirements, schedules, assets, productivity — all these need to be well managed to run a strong operation. From planning to execution, your airline can easily manage these key areas with Sabre® AirCentre™ Maintenance and still maintain reliability and cost effectiveness.       

How? Our solutions provide seamless data exchange between your maintenance and operations control systems. This allows both your maintenance and movement controllers to make better decisions and improve aircraft availability because they will be working from a real-time data exchange. 

Handling, processing, storing and upkeep of compliance-certified maintenance records is mandatory. Reduce your cost to manage and fulfill these tasks with our streamlined, paperless solution. Any maintenance document in any file format can be entered at its source and made available for processing from any location, using only an Internet connection.

Market & Competitive Intelligence

Today’s rapidly evolving marketplace drives an unprecedented need to analyze data, make a decision and take action quickly.

Our market and competitive intelligence solution, Sabre® AirVision™ Market Intelligence, enables you to make well-informed decisions quickly based on a clear understanding of customer demand and the competitive landscape. This solution can be used throughout the commercial planning function and at any stage of the process. Sabre AirVision Market Intelligence enables users to gain new insights and drive better decisions across commercial planning.

Movement Control

Increase your efficiency by integrating movement control activities with flight scheduling and maintenance control systems. Through this integrated approach, your operations controllers can easily monitor the status of their flights and gain a better view of impending operational problems, making the process of resolving them much more efficient.

Our movement control solutions are designed to enable airlines regardless of their business model or market.

Onboard Catering & Provisioning

Is onboard service important to how you serve customers and present your brand? Our modular, Web-based Sabre® AirVision™ In-flight solution offers market-leading capabilities and a proven ROI.

It is a complete in-flight services solution that streamlines the catering processes, integrates multiple systems onto a single platform, automates your business processes and frees you to focus on strategic catering and provisioning decisions.

Online Direct

Our integrated e-commerce solution, SabreSonic® Web, will help revolutionize your online business and empower your customers. From customer acquisition to revenue recognition, we offer a platform upon which you can execute a comprehensive strategy that serves the end-to-end travel needs of the customer.

Part of our e-commerce solution is a best-in-class Internet booking engine that drives direct distribution. It combines the flexibility of a custom solution with the stability and speed to market of a standard off-the-shelf product.

By applying customer-centric business rules to shopping and merchandising, airlines can increase online sales conversions and revenue per order, positively impacting profitability. Airlines benefit from a community investment model that lowers development costs, while the Software as a Service model lowers overall operating costs.

Passenger Connectivity Optimization

Increase your passenger connectivity by optimizing not just a flight but an entire hub.

Retime your flights to maximize revenue while still meeting all feasibility-related constraints with the advanced forecasting and optimization techniques of Sabre® AirVision™ Network Manager.

Passenger Revenue Management

The industry calls it revenue management, but our solution is really about maximizing your revenue.

With Sabre® AirVision™ Revenue Manager you have the power and flexibility to manage the entire range of revenue management functions including reservations data collection, off-line data collection, forecasting, overbooking, optimization, performance measurement and reporting.

Revenue Manager offers a unique and advanced origin and destination (O&D) view for network carriers, and for mostly point-to-point airlines a leg-based analysis view. Within either, we can help you manage markets where you compete with low-cost carriers or in markets with traditional rules-based pricing.

Planning & Scheduling

Design your airline's network to better compete in the marketplace with our network planning solutions.

Network planning plays a leading role in your brand, profitability and operational success. To stay ahead of your competition, you must constantly evaluate your current route structure.

Take a strategic look at your network to improve its overall performance with our integrated suite of network planning solutions.

Product Merchandising

Product merchandising is more than just selling additional products and services — it is a business strategy that touches all phases of the customer experience. 

We provide an end-to-end product merchandising solution that aligns with your needs. Our solution enables you to create, sell, deliver and account for all products and services that increase revenue. 

With our solution, your team will be empowered to offer customers the right product and services at the right price and the right time.

Reaccommodation

For passengers waiting in an airport, time seems to stand still. And when you’re struggling to get back on track, time flies!

With our automated reaccommodation solution, you’ll be able to promptly take control of those disruptions and get each passenger back on track and on their way again. You can even use customer value settings driven by business rules to help you make the right decisions.

Reaccommodation Management

When schedule disruptions occur, are your passengers reaccomodated in a manner they expect? Can you quickly build solutions to meet your customers’ needs as well as contractual obligations while minimizing the overall cost impact? Sabre® Reaccomodation Manager can help prior to and during the day of operations.

Recovery Management

Many irregular operations are unavoidable. Don’t compound the problem for your airline and customers by not having a response plan in place.   

Create immediate alternatives for flight delays, cancellations, equipment swaps and diversions to recover from flight schedule disruptions with our integrated solutions.  

As disruptions occur, our solutions enable collaborative and real-time decision making with advanced optimization techniques and the seamless exchange of information among these operational groups:

• Movement control,
• Crew management,
• Airport operations,
• Passenger-handling systems.  

They also simplify and automate the rebooking process when passengers are affected by schedule disruptions.

Reservations

To keep your customers loyal, you need to be able to treat them uniquely at every touchpoint. To accomplish this, you need an end-to-end, seamless approach to sales and service. SabreSonic® Res — a key component of our SabreSonic® Customer Sales & Service (CSS) solution — provides you with advanced customer management tools, from reservations, product merchandising and inventory, through ticketing.

Our fully integrated solution provides access to the same information across all points of sale and service, so you can better serve your customers. SabreSonic Res is the engine that powers your Internet booking engine, call center, inventory control, loyalty system, data warehouse and departure control. It gives you the power to grow your business. Additionally, it allows your airline to offer choices and deliver those services that fit your brand consistently throughout the travel experience.

Revenue Accounting

Better revenue information drives better revenue decisions. With Sabre® AirVision™ Revenue Accounting, you can better understand all aspects of your revenue. Accurately accounting for ticket, interline and ancillary sales is the heart of our solution.

In today’s competitive environment, having accurate and timely revenue information drives additional revenue opportunities.

Revenue Integrity

Revenue integrity means optimizing revenue while protecting your inventory from bad bookings. With fewer bad bookings you can better utilize your existing seats without the increased operating cost of adding more flights or aircraft.

Real-time data processing makes Sabre® AirVision™ Revenue Integrity unique to the marketplace. It finds more problem bookings, finds them earlier and resolves them quicker, releasing seats for resale while demand is still high. It receives bookings in real time as soon as they are created or changed and searches for potential problems. It then either automatically challenges or cancels those problem bookings, releasing them for resale to other passengers.

Route Forecasting

Identifying new markets that will generate incremental profitability can be a challenge. Whether you are adding new aircraft to your fleet or using available aircraft time, you need a solution that identifies the most profitable market and its impact on existing routes.

Sabre® AirVision™ Profit Manager provides the most accurate and insightful method to help you identify the best new market opportunities for comprehensive airline route planning.

Schedule Management

Your schedule impacts operations revenue and profitability.

Scheduling hundreds, if not thousands, of flights across your network while allowing for operational constraints can be overwhelming. That's why most of the leading airlines around the globe rely on our scheduling solutions to help build, evaluate and refine their schedules.

Sabre® AirVision™ Schedule Manager supports end-to-end airline scheduling, ensuring slot requirements are met and codeshare flights are aligned with partners’ schedules.

Shopping & Pricing

When you need to generate the right product at the right time, our solution delivers a highly configurable set of direct-distribution shopping and pricing capabilities.

Slot Management

Airport landing slots are some of your airline's most valuable assets. With Sabre® AirVision™ Slot Manager, your scheduling group can ensure all standards are met and reduce the chance of losing these valuable assets.

Staff Management

Closely monitor all aspects of your airport operations with our resource management solutions. You can plan and manage staff resources, task deployment and tracking on the day of operations as well as manage long-term resource planning.

Sabre® AirCentre™ Staff Manager facilitates and manages daily staff planning and deployment of the associated handling tasks. It dramatically enhances airport handling operations through sophisticated planning models, visual alerts and streamlined information access.

Sabre® AirCentre™ Staff Planner quickly and accurately determines the level of airport personnel required for a given flight schedule.

We have a robust solution to help you perform common administrative duties. Sabre® AirCentre™ Staff Admin helps you perform common administrative duties as well as unique tasks specific to industry and location. The entire employee administrative process is streamlined, providing decision support for workforce planning and scheduling.

Additionally, the Sabre® AirCentre™ Roster Maker solution handles various roster patterns for an operation and offers the flexibility to try variations on shifting, such as split shifts, variable start time and shift durations.

Technical Records Hub

It’s vital that your airline’s technical or maintenance records are kept throughout the life of an aircraft, engine or other asset. Without these records, regulatory agencies render the aircraft non-airworthy. Sabre® AirCentre™ Technical Records Hub provides efficient electronic records processing and archiving.

Ticketing

Select with confidence our best-in-class ticketing solution that meets your business demands and delivers accurate and secure transactions.

Our solution replaces paper-based voucher processes with automated electronic documents, or EMDs (electronic miscellaneous documents), increasing team member efficiency, improving customer responsiveness and eliminating paper-related costs.

Over 150 airlines around the globe are partnering with us to provide access to a full suite of electronic ticketing solutions.

Travel Bank

You can improve customer loyalty and generate additional revenue by providing credit to a customer in lieu of a hard-currency refund. Travel Bank lets you deposit residual values from refund and exchange processes into a customer-managed credit account, avoiding cash or voucher refunds.

User Experience

Today, travel providers demand industry-leading configurable and customizable user interfaces and business process solutions to improve productivity, efficiency, quality and overall process accuracy.

Our user experience solutions provide airlines with some of the most widely used and most powerful airline graphical user interfaces and business process automation tools. User interfaces can be deployed independently or combined with other solutions to simplify call center processes and efficiently facilitate airport operations. In addition, our developer tools enable airlines to solve complex business problems through the rapid development of user-friendly graphical user interfaces and automated processes.

User experience solutions include:

• Sabre® Qik® Solution — composed of many components such as the Developer Tool, Multitask Manager and Peripheral Manager,
• Sabre® GDS Display Analysis,
• Sabre® Smart Flow,
• the Interact interface.