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Sabre Blends Distribution Network and Airline Units Under New Leadership

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Photo Credit: Sabre CEO Sean Menke in London in late June 2018 at the European edition of the company's customer conference. The Texas-based travel technology giant has bowed to demands for a management team more focused on software solutions across travel sectors. Sabre

Skift Take

The travel technology giant has bowed to investor and airline demands for a management team more focused on software solutions that help with the retailing, distribution, and fulfillment of travel as an end-to-end journey, not just siloed by function.

Sabre CEO Sean Menke, only a year-and-a-half on the job, seems to think the secret to moving forward is to restructure the company structure and its leadership. The aim is to promote insight-sharing and cooperative behavior across business units. On Wednesday the Southlake, Texas-based company announced organizational and leadership changes. Until now, the company had three divisions: Travel Network, which acts as a middleman distributor of content between suppliers like airlines and travel agencies and corporate travel management companies; Airline Solutions, which provides software that helps airlines run their operations; and Sabre Hospitality Solutions, which offers software such as booking engines for websites to hotels. Sabre is unifying two of those divisions, its distribution-themed

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