Move to open systems for shopping and pricing is delivering tangible results: Sabre

Sabre Travel Network has announced its latest foundational elements for end-to-end corporate and leisure solutions.

According to an official release, these broad improvements to the Sabre Air suite, including the Sabre MyFares fare management system, core pricing and shopping capabilities and customisable fare displays, are the key building blocks of an end-to-end product suite that leverages open systems technology to speed and greatly enhance shopping and pricing beyond any other GDS offering.

The company says Sabre Air suite provides a new generation of enhanced shopping and pricing capabilities, enabling travel agents to more quickly find the best and most accurate fare options for their clients. The benefits of these new capabilities were instrumental in compelling major agencies to move business to Sabre in recent months. More broadly, all Sabre Connected agencies worldwide are being upgraded to the new system.

Referring to a recent independent study conducted by Topaz International, it shared those agents who use Sabre Air found the lowest fares as much as 21 times more often than other GDSs. In addition, when finding the lower fares, Sabre Air delivered an average of approximately 50 percent more in savings.

“The data from this study clearly shows that the move to open systems for shopping and pricing is delivering tangible results - the type of results that provide the differentiated service Sabre Connected travel agents and their customers expect when shopping in Sabre,” said Chris Kroeger, senior vice president for North America, Sabre Travel Network.

Another key component of Sabre’s new end-to-end foundation is Sabre MyFares.

This management system combines robust fare-filing capabilities with a graphical interface that enables agencies to quickly and easily load their private fares into Sabre.

“With Sabre MyFares, agents improve productivity and accuracy, thereby reducing the cost of managing and distributing their private fares, while at the same time improving the quality of their service to customers. By combining Sabre MyFares with Sabre's leading low fare shopping capabilities, agents have easy access to their preferred content, as well as to the best tools to comparison shop across both published and private fares,” stated the company.

“Through our Efficient Access Solution, Sabre Connected travel agents gained complete and easy access to their negotiated rates, along with the full-content available in the Sabre GDS. Sabre MyFares builds upon this access, significantly streamlining the workflow of agents, particularly those who serve the corporate market where productivity and customer response times are critical,” said Kroeger.

Sabre has also introduced advanced pricing and rule display capabilities, allowing agents to ensure that they are accurately pricing itineraries while viewing the associated fare rules via customisable, simple and easy-to-interpret rule displays.

With Sabre Air’s new capabilities, Sabre Connected agents have enhanced capabilities to streamline their end-to-end air sales process, deliver even stronger value to their customers, and help further differentiate their offerings in the marketplace, it stated.