American Airlnes Sabre System
American Airlines:
SABRE Reservation System in Europe
INTRODUCTION :
Presentation of the company
American Airline inc. is a US-based airline and also the largest airline in the world in terms of total passengers-miles transported and passenger fleet size, and the second-largest airline company in the world (behind Air France-KLM) in terms of total operating revenues,. A wholly owned subsidiary of the AMR Corporation, the airline is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, adjacent to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. American operates scheduled flights throughout the United States, as well as flights to Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Japan, China, and India. The Chairman, President, and CEO of AA is Gerard Arpey. In 2005, the airline flew more than 138 billion revenue passenger miles (RPM).
American Airlines was developed from a conglomeration of about 82 small airlines through a series of corporate acquisitions and reorganizations: initially, the name American Airways was used as a common brand by a number of independent air carriers. These included Southern Air Transport in Texas, Southern Air Fast Express (SAFE) in the western US, Universal Aviation in the Midwest (which operated a transcontinental air/rail route in 1929), and Colonial Air Transport in the Northeast. Today it has become a huge transnational company that flies across the world.
SABRE Reservation system
Sabre stands for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment. Sabre was first introduced in 19-é and expanded two years later. It is a computer reservations system that functions on a global distribution system used mostly by airlines, but also by railways, hotels, travel agents and other travel companies. SABRE GDS is a unit of SABRE Holdings' SABRE Travel Network division. Current North American hosted carriers include Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Cape Air Nantucket Airlines, Frontier Airlines,...
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