Travel Tech CEO Series: Sabre Bets on an Ex-Airline Boss to Reboot Its Industry Relationships
Photo Credit: Sean Menke speaking at Sabre's customer conference last summer, prior to becoming CEO. Sabre
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In his first Q&A with Skift, Sean Menke, the new CEO of Sabre, says that his past stints as CEO of Frontier Airlines and as a top executive at Hawaiian Airlines and Air Canada give him vital insight into how to steer the technology giant through tougher-than-usual negotiations with airlines.
Editor's Note: This year we expanded our coverage of the technology companies that do the behind-the-scenes work of powering the technology systems of the world's major travel companies.
We’re sitting down with a handful of industry leaders for our new Travel Tech CEO Listening Series to discover where they think the industry is heading.
It was only in January that Sean Menke became the chief executive of Sabre, a travel technology company based in Southlake, Texas, with 10,000 employees worldwide.
Yet Menke has already come out fighting.
He says his company is well aware of the recent spate of glitches that have downed airline reservation systems. While Sabre wasn't responsible for all of the affected systems, Menke says he has "pulled forward some additional spend and re-prioritized projects to get at some of the key issues that need addressing."
Menke faces industry critics who imply that Sabre hasn't invested adequately in its various systems.
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