Sabre Airline Solutions had expanded its existing relationship with Dubai-based carrier Emirates. The airline will enhance its flight scheduling activity by implementing the…
Sabre Airline Solutions had expanded its existing relationship with Dubai-based carrier Emirates. The airline will enhance its flight scheduling activity by implementing the Sabre AirFlite flight schedules planning and management solutions. Emirates has replaced its existing Sabre Airline Solutions product, PC AirFlite, with the premier offering.
Azhar Kapadwanjwala, vice-president of schedule planning and network optimisation at Emirates, said: “We liked PC AirFlite but the demands of being one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, and the resulting need for greater functionality, led us to upgrade to Sabre Airline Solutions’ premier flight scheduling tool. It has the performance and ease-of-use of PC AirFlite, but the enhanced features will help make our business more efficient and profitable.”
“Over 70 airlines around the world rely on AirFlite to prepare and distribute their flight schedules,” said Steve Clampett, president of airline products and solutions at Sabre Airline Solutions. “We expect Emirates will derive significant value from this new version, including enhanced scheduling flexibility and analysis.”
In a separate development the UK’s travel website, lastminute.com, has signed a deal to become the sole worldwide supplier of hotel products to the Emirates Website for the first time.
Vic Darvey, group trade director for lastminute.com B2B said: “We’re delighted to be working with one of the world’s fastest growing airlines and we look forward to supporting them as they continue their expansion. Our wide range of hotel content will be pivotal to this relationship and we see this as a strong endorsement of our capabilities as an integrated supplier of ancillary revenues.”
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