SABRE has partnered
with Star Alliance
to offer automated
round the world (RTW) and
circle trip (CT) airfares
through the Sabre GDS.
The new automated
booking technology will
help travel agents reduce
the cost of selling RTW
and CT products.
The new technology
provides a complete fare
price to the agent for
the passenger’s entire
journey. Previously, when
booking multi-destination
RTW itineraries for
travellers, agents had to
manually construct the
fare after calculating the
mileage and checking
the fare conditions of
a passenger’s journey.
Agencies will also benefit
from reduced agency
debit memo costs sent by
airlines when there is a
discrepancy between the
fare sold to the customer
by the agency and the
airline’s published price.
“Together with Star
Alliance we can now offer
a simpler way of booking
and pricing RTW fares,”
says Sabre senior vp of
EMEA, Harald Eisenaecher.
“We are pleased to be
working with Sabre to
open a further distribution
channel through which
our RTW and CT fares
can be easily booked
and automatically priced.
Leveraging technology to
simplify and accelerate
complex processes is
a key benefit that an
alliance can provide. In
this case, we now enable
even more travel agents
in even more markets to
quickly and easily respond
to customer wishes for
round the world travel,
which often can involve
highly individualised and
complicated routings,”
says Star Alliance vp of
commercial and business
development, Horst
Findeisen.
Book automated RTW fares on Sabre
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