Sabre AirMax Suite

Enhanced Revenue Management | Group Traffic Management | Day-of-Departure Control

Today’s airlines require systems that enable them to selectively
accept or reject passenger bookings based on their overall revenue contributions and adjust inventories and prices up to and including the day of operation in response to demand. Revenue management often means the difference between profit and loss.

The Sabre® AirMax® Revenue Management Suite offers sophisticated tools to manage an airline’s revenue.

Enhanced Revenue Management

Sabre® AirMax® Revenue Manager is a robust and flexible tool, a best-of-breed solution supporting the entire range of revenue manage ment applications including reservations data collection, off-line data collection, forecasting, overbooking, optimization, performance measurement and reporting. The system can be run in different pro cessing modes based on the desired level of sophistication in inventory control. It offers three levels of inventory controls: leg and segment, virtual nesting and O&D. In fact, Revenue Manager is the industry’s only commercially available O&D revenue management system.

The revenue enhancement from utilizing Revenue Manager is estimated to be from 5% to 7%. The system has been successfully implemented at more than 35 top-tier industry carriers.

See the Cargo Management section of this booklet for a description of Sabre® CargoMax™ Revenue Manager, a system that helps an air cargo operation increase profits through effective cargo space manage ment.

Group Traffic Management

Sabre® AirMax® Group Manager is an innovative solution that helps revenue man­agement and reservations agents effectively control group traffic. The system evaluates group traffic utilizing historical and current traffic data, forecasts booking activity and tracks the behavioral characteristics of individual group requests. The system's data analyses help an airline make informed revenue management decisions. Using information provided by AirMax Revenue Manager, Group Manager displays the financial consequences of accepting a group that may displace higher priced individual customers. Group Manager, operating as a stand-alone system or in conjunction with AirMax Revenue Manager, enables an airline to evaluate both one- time or ad hoc groups as well as series groups, those groups requesting the same flights over a period of time.

Revenue enhancement from utilizing Group Manager is typically in the range of 1% to 2% depending on the airline’s current group management processes and the modules installed. The system has been implemented successfully at more than 12 major industry carriers.

Day-of-Departure Control

The Sabre® AirMax® Day-of-Departure Manager helps departure operations analysts identify, analyze and take action on any flight during the 24 hours prior to departure. This problem-identification system accesses both reservations and flight operations data from the reservations system and provides all the functionality needed to effectively view and manage flights within an airline system.

Capitalizing on Day-of-Departure Manager functionality, airlines can decrease operations costs associated with oversales, spoilage and reaccommodation services.

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