Sabre Airline Solutions

Fast Facts

Sabre Airline Solutions®, the industry leader in airline operations technology, is the only company that provides a complete portfolio across the spectrum of airline operations, including:

  • Sabre Airline Solutions has the highest volume of transactions and passengers processed through our passenger management solutions; our inventory has both volume and capability leadership; and Sabre® eMergo®, Sabre Airline Solutions' ASP application, is the only solution that has established a foothold in the airline ASP model.
  • The company kicked off the start of 2004 with the launch of the SabreSonic™ Passenger Solutions, the industry’s first hosted new generation passenger solution system built on open systems technology that allows for “plug and play” flexibility and speed to market.
  • Sabre Airline Solutions' decision support tools are viewed as industry leading based on critical mass of customers and capability. These solutions include revenue management, planning and scheduling, flight operations, business process management, crew management, loyalty management, resource management, market data and analysis, loyalty management, cargo management, dining and cabin services, fares management, finance, and maintenance and engineering.
  • Unlike most in the field, Sabre Airline Solutions' consulting team is solely focused on the airline industry and its consultants have the background of airline veterans – with a unique understanding of airline’s issues.
     
    • Sabre Airline Solutions consultants have assisted more than 400 airlines worldwide, from large network airlines to smaller regional ones.
    • In the U.S., Sabre Airline Solutions consultants have been engaged with three of the top 10 carriers in the areas of fleet optimization, network planning and revenue management.  Additionally, the company provides consulting services to more than 50 U.S. airports.
  • Sabre Airline Solutions has made significant investments to integrate its portfolio, with 104 points of integration across the portfolio today and another 135 underway or planned – by far the best integration of airline operations in the industry.
  • A development team of more than 500 members directly supports Sabre Airline Solutions, leveraging research, technology and architecture direction to deliver cost-effective, best-of-breed solutions. In addition, another 1,000 developers also support systems utilized by Sabre Airline Solutions.
  • More than 70 software suites are offered through Sabre Airline Solutions' product portfolio.
  • Sabre Airline Solutions is becoming a leading technology solution for low cost airlines – with more than 25 low cost carriers using our technology solutions, including those that are currently considered the world’s most successful low cost carriers.
  • The airline industry’s first automated revenue management system was developed by Sabre Holdings® and installed in 1986.
    • Sabre Airline Solutions also invented the virtual and continuous nesting concepts for this system, which is the only product of its kind on the market today that provides this vital functionality.
    • Sabre Airline Solutions is now offering the industry’s only true origin and destination revenue management vs. the standard leg or segment based model, which means an airline can now maximize profit across its entire network, as well as across multiple carriers.
    • Sabre Airline Solutions is also the first to offer restriction free pricing revenue management, which helps both low cost carriers and carriers competing with low cost carriers to analyze and maximize revenues under a simplified fare structure.
  • In 1998, Sabre Airline Solutions completed the largest system migration in the airline industry’s history, when 200 U.S. airways systems were shut down and shifted to Sabre systems.

Sabre Airline Solutions helps airlines better market, sell, serve and operate - from planning through execution

  • Market
    • Sabre Airline Solutions helps airlines plan how to best offer their schedules to customers and generate the most revenue.
    • The SabreSonic solutions contain schedules for more than 600 airlines
  • Sell
    • In January 2004, Sabre Airline Solutions introduced the industry’s first new generation reservations system to build its core functions on open systems with the launch of the SabreSonic passenger solution. This solution provides the first offering for an integrated or component approach to passenger management, including SabreSonic Res, SabreSonic Check-In, SabreSonic Web, SabreSonic Inventory, SabreSonic Ticket and SabreSonic Shop.
    • More than 100 airlines worldwide use Sabre Airline Solutions for their reservations and departure control systems.
  • Serve
    • The passengers boarded through the SabreSonic passenger solution continue to significantly outpace the industry.
  • Operate
    • Nine of the top 10 airlines use at least one of the Sabre Airline Solutions planning and scheduling products, 20 of the top 25, and 36 of the top 50.
    • Seven of the top 10 and 15 of the top 25 North American airlines (based on passengers boarded) are users of at least one module of the Streamline suite for staff and resource management of airport operations.
    • Sabre Airline Solutions is continuing to see traction in its ASP model with 64 customers using this model for successful implementations of mission-critical systems such as crew scheduling, flight operations, pricing, revenue management and dining and cabin services.