# Sabre

> Sabre is a Southlake, Texas-based enterprise travel technology company whose marketplace connects airlines, lodging providers and other suppliers with online and offline agencies, travel management companies and corporate travel departments. Its second business is airline technology: reservation, retailing, operations and decision-support software delivered through SaaS and hosted systems. After selling Hospitality Solutions in 2025, Sabre is concentrating on SabreMosaic, an open and modular platform intended to unify traditional GDS content, NDC offers, low-cost carriers, payments and AI-assisted shopping.

- **Founded:** 1960
- **Headquarters:** Southlake, United States
- **Founders:** C. R. Smith (American Airlines president and co-originator), R. Blair Smith (IBM sales representative and co-originator), American Airlines (Founding corporate parent), IBM (Original technology development partner)
- **Team size:** 4,650 employees worldwide as of December 31, 2025
- **Products:** SabreMosaic Travel Marketplace, SabreMosaic Airline Technology, SabreSonic Passenger Service System, Sabre Red 360, Sabre APIs and Developer Partner program
- **Notable:** Built the first centralized airline reservation system with American Airlines and IBM, with the full network completed in 1964., Cut reservation processing from roughly 90 minutes to seconds and handled 7,500 reservations per hour by the mid-1960s., Extended direct computer booking access to travel agents in 1976.

## Products & services

- **SabreMosaic Travel Marketplace** — A multi-source B2B marketplace that brings together traditional airfares, NDC offers, low-cost carrier content, lodging and other travel inventory with intelligence and agent-friendly APIs.
- **SabreMosaic Airline Technology** — An open, modular, AI-enabled platform for airline offer creation, order management, settlement, delivery and retail intelligence.
- **SabreSonic Passenger Service System** — Hosted airline passenger-service capabilities covering reservations and related operational workflows for full-service carriers.
- **Sabre Red 360** — A travel-agency point-of-sale workspace for shopping, booking, ticketing and servicing travel content.
- **Sabre APIs and Developer Partner program** — Travel shopping, booking and servicing APIs, sample code and partner access for agencies and software developers.
- **Sabre IQ Retail Intelligence** — AI-driven modules including Air Price IQ, Ancillary IQ and Upgrade IQ that help airlines price and personalize offers.
- **Cache-powered Intelligent Shopping** — Predictive shopping APIs that decide when to use validated cached offers or poll airlines live, designed to improve speed and fare accuracy while controlling look-to-book traffic.
- **Sabre Payments** — Payment and settlement capabilities for travel sellers and suppliers, including virtual-card technology through Conferma.
- **Lodging AI** — Recommendation technology that uses trip context and traveler preferences to improve hotel attachment and suggest alternatives.
- **Concierge IQ** — A generative AI assistant for airline travel planning, shopping and passenger servicing interactions.

## Achievements

- Built the first centralized airline reservation system with American Airlines and IBM, with the full network completed in 1964.
- Cut reservation processing from roughly 90 minutes to seconds and handled 7,500 reservations per hour by the mid-1960s.
- Extended direct computer booking access to travel agents in 1976.
- Launched easySabre for consumer online services in 1985 and Travelocity in 1996.
- Separated from American Airlines and became independent in 2000.
- Returned to public markets on Nasdaq in 2014 under the ticker SABR.
- Launched the modular SabreMosaic Airline Technology platform in 2024.
- Sold Hospitality Solutions to TPG for $1.1 billion in 2025, narrowing its focus to the marketplace and airline technology.
- Processed about 92 million marketplace bookings and boarded about 174 million airline passengers in Q2 2026.
- Reported Q2 2026 revenue of $712 million, up 4% year over year.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Reported Q2 revenue of $712 million, up 4% year over year, with 92 million marketplace bookings and positive free cash flow.
- **2026-08** — Air Tanzania selected Sabre technology to support growth and modern airline retailing.
- **2026-07** — Opened production travel APIs to developers at a Silicon Valley voice-AI hackathon with partners including American Airlines and PayPal.
- **2026-06** — Expanded an agentic AI deployment with Ultra Group as it grows under the Linex Travel brand.
- **2026-05** — Mindtrip launched a conversation-led flight booking and PayPal checkout experience powered by Sabre.
- **2026-03** — Reached a governance agreement with Constellation Software and added its representative Damian McKay to Sabre's board.
- **2026-02** — Introduced Cache-powered Intelligent Shopping, targeting sub-half-second results and 95% alignment with live airline offers.
- **2025-07** — Completed the $1.1 billion sale of Hospitality Solutions to TPG and directed most net proceeds toward debt reduction.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sabre.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sabre-corporation
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Sabre_Corp
- GitHub: https://github.com/SabreDevStudio
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SabreNewsTV
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SabreCorporation/

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Last updated: 2026-08-13