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Corporations

The Sabre GDS – a key ingredient to achieving Best-In-Class Travel Procurement for your company

More corporate travel managers recognize that the global distribution system their travel management company uses is a strategic sourcing decision. The Sabre® global distribution system is one of the most essential ingredients you can choose to maximize the value of your travel program for your company.

With the Sabre GDS behind your travel management company, you’ll be able to:

Maximize Savings

The Sabre GDS is the world’s best at finding the lowest fares, as confirmed by an independent study*. And the savings are significant, too.

Based on your mix of domestic and international destinations, you could save 10% or more annually, simply by using the Sabre GDS. That’s $1 million in savings for every $10 million in air spend. Our dedication to investing in the industry’s best low-fare search capabilities means bottom line savings for your company.

Plus, Sabre offers the broadest selection of travel suppliers and rates, assuring you find the right combination to meet your traveler’s needs. With GDS access to Southwest Airlines and JetBlue as well as nearly 80,000 hotel properties, you’re sure to find the best value for each trip.

Provide Better Service

Through Sabre® Virtually There® we provide your travel management company with tools to keep your employees up-to-date and stress-free while traveling. These tools provide electronic itineraries that travelers can access 24/7 from most handheld devices, as well as real-time event notification capabilities. Employees can even email itineraries to others to keep them informed of their travel plans. And with these tools, your traveling employees can register to receive alerts in the event of any flight delays or gate changes via their mobile devices. This reduces the number of calls your travelers make to your travel management company.

Sabre also provides the industry’s leading online corporate booking tool, GetThere®, the choice of over 60% of Fortune 200 companies. With a dramatically redesigned interface modeled after Travelocity, the leading consumer site, your employees experience a familiar, easy-to-use tool. Plus, as a Sabre Connected^SM corporation you have access to unique features of the GetThere + Sabre combination. Features like online ticket exchange and the ability to claim offline PNR’s for online viewing and modification provide your traveling employees better service.

Increase Security

Only Sabre provides you with peace of mind when it comes to the security of your traveling employees. Our Sabre® Traveler Security and Data Suite provides real-time tracking of your travelers. From a graphical map, authorized users can immediately drill down to specific locales to determine where your travelers are and where they are planning to travel. This allows your company to better manage security procedures in the event of an emergency without having to integrate a third party tracking solution.

By striving to maintain a security policy that ensures any credit card data exchanged, collected or maintained through our business partnerships is PCI compliant, you can rest assured your traveler’s data is safe.

With the savings, service and security benefits Sabre offers, don’t leave the choice of the GDS behind your managed travel program to chance. Recommend Sabre to your travel management company to begin achieving your highest potential. Or contact us at 1-877-Sabre-25.

* – Independent study conducted by Topaz International, 2006-2007. The top city pairs in each region were identified based on average number of bookings (both online and offline). City-pair quantities for each region: 65 for North America, 73 for Europe and the Middle East, 77 for Latin America, and 50 for Asia-Pacific. Travel combinations for each market included 3-, 7-, 14- and 21-day advance purchase with and without a Saturday night stay. A $5 variance difference was allotted in determining lowest fares to address differences in taxes and service fees.

** As of May 4, 2007