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Sabre signs deal with UK’s leading Uniglobe franchisee
Uniglobe franchisee Top Flight Travel has contracted to use the Sabre® global distribution system (GDS) for travel bookings. The agency’s offices in London, Plymouth and Reading will start converting to Sabre, from Galileo, in April. Implementation will be completed by the end of June.
Top Flight Travel’s move to Sabre follows four other recent and significant European agency account wins by the GDS. The conversion of French agencies Club Voyages, Jancarthier and Boomerang from Amadeus has increased Sabre’s French market share by nearly two percent, and the company has also just secured the business of a large Italian corporate travel management organisation.
David Brown, Sabre’s vice president for the UK, Ireland and the Nordic region, said the conversion had been prompted by Sabre’s technological leadership in areas such as online travel and revenue maximisation. His comments were reinforced by Maria Baty, director of Uniglobe Top Flight Travel.
“We converted to Sabre because it was better able to support our technological strategic direction in the form of an online management information system, online booking engine and quality control software”, she said.
Top Flight Travel is the largest Uniglobe agency in the UK and the fifth largest in the world. Brown said the conversion could open the door for more business from Uniglobe franchisees.
About Sabre
Sabre is the leading provider of technology, distribution and marketing services for the travel industry. Headquartered in Southlake, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the company has approximately 5,500 employees in 45 countries. Sabre reported 2001 revenues of $2.1 billion. Sabre maintains an ownership interest of approximately 70 percent in Travelocity.com (NASDAQ: TVLY), the most popular travel site on the web; and it owns GetThere, the world’s leading provider of Web-based travel reservation systems for corporations and travel suppliers. Sabre is an S&P 500 company, traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TSG). More information on Sabre is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.sabre.com.
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