Sabre's New CEO Is Former Frontier Airlines Chief Sean Menke


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Airlines and travel agents are Sabre Corp.'s most important constituencies -- other than shareholders -- and now the company has former airline executives serving as CEO and executive chairman of the board. These airline connections aren't the only reasons the board selected these executives but their experience certainly can't hurt.

In a changing of the guard of sorts at Sabre Corp., the board appointed Sean Menke as president, CEO and board member, replacing Tom Klein, who announced earlier this year that he would resign. Menke, who had been president of Sabre Travel Network, the unit that operates Sabre's global distribution system for suppliers and travel agents, since October 2015, and previously had been CEO of Frontier Airlines