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Sabre Taxiing For Another Run At Airline Booking Biz?
Sabre and Farelogix… read more
Internet cost in Africa far too high
The average cost of 1GB of data on the continent is 7.12 percent of average income, with some countries having rates as high as 20 percent
Taxing internet access / restricting social media access seen as counterproductive and repressiveAfrica’s internet duopolists MTN and Airtel challenged to improve reliability, speed and to substant… read more
Zoom could be the future for travel agencies
Did you buy Zoom shares at the start of the Coronavirus crisis? I didn’t, unfortunately. They were hovering around $70 until the end of January then started a steady rise hitting a peak of about $174 on 14 May. I mention this as it is an indicator of how our lives have changed. I don’t think this is a short-term change but will have long-… read more
COVID-19: Stakeholders insist technology investment key to travel, airline recovery post
Lufthansa Group to be removed from Sabre as pair fail to reach distribution agreement
SABRE and Arcor to built joint tech platform for global hospitality
Sabre Corporation and Accor announced that they plan tu build the first unified central reservation (CR) and property management (PM) platform for the global hospitality industry.
In collaboration with Accor, Sabre intends to develop a new full service property management capability and enrich its existing… read more
Air India offline in SABRE
Quite a known phenomenon in Africa, now also in India: With immedeate effect it is not possible any longer to book any Air India flights through the Global Distribution System (GDS) SABRE.
This news had been spread by SABRE itself via a press release.
“After a successful 20-year relationship, Air India has decided t… read more
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