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Qantas Deploys Sabre AirFlite Suite Systems to Improve Flight Schedule Planning
Advanced Planning Tools Provide Australia's Leading Carrier the Ability To
Profitably Schedule Flights Up to Three Years Into the Future
SOUTHLAKE, Texas, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Airline Solutions, the industry
leader in airline operations technology, today announced that Qantas Airlines
has gone live with Release 10 of Sabre AirFlite Schedule Manager and Profit
Manager, providing automation of the flight scheduling and route evaluation
processes.
With over 60 airline customers worldwide, AirFlite is the industry standard for
scheduling software solutions. All of the top 10 airlines globally are using at
least one of the AirFlite suite's scheduling products. While Release 10 of the
product has been in rigorous testing for several months, AirFlite Schedule
Manager is now live, running all Qantas' long haul schedule planning.
Schedule Manager is being used to evaluate Qantas' route and network decisions
up to three years in advance. Currently four other global customers are poised
to join Qantas with implementation of the system, going live by the middle of
2004.
Qantas has undertaken the first live implementation of the Release 10 version of
the AirFlite suite. This release employs state-of-the-art, multi- user, Java
Oracle technology to improve performance, usability, and integration resulting
in faster, easier, and smarter scheduling. Smooth implementation has also been
a goal of development work.
"I have been very pleased with the smooth introduction that Sabre Airline
Solutions has achieved with Schedule Manager," said David Round, Manager Network
Systems & Communication, Qantas. "As the first airline to go live with the new
system version, we were expecting some initial problems but we have been
impressed with the system and support we have received from Sabre staff.
As a result of the easy rollout of these products and the performance of
AirFlite suite to date, Qantas plans to also go live with Release 10 of AirFlite
Fleet Manager in the first half of 2004. Fleet Manager enables an airline to
optimally allocate capacity to improve the profitability of a schedule employing
a patented O&D passenger flow model in its global optimizationtechnique. In
addition, Qantas has also committed to the purchase of Release 10 of the Sabre
SlotManager system, which will allow them to manage and track slot rights at
slot-coordinated airports, and streamline the slot request process.
Cameron Curtis, vice president, Asia Pacific said, "We offer our client base a
proven migration path to this new platform using our PC-based systems (PC
AirFlite). When our clients want to take the next step in terms of advanced
planning and scheduling functionality and optimization techniques -- we are
ready. We are noticing an increased awareness of the value of schedule and
market profitability analysis. Airlines need tools to manage market demand,
airline constraints and profitability data so that they canmake schedule,
network and fleeting decisions quickly and accurately. These are decisions with
a high dollar impact that can't be done manually in many cases."
About Sabre Airline Solutions
Sabre Airline Solutions, a Sabre Holdings company, is the world's largest
provider of software products, reservation and departure control systems and
consulting services to help airlines simplify operations and lower costs. Over
200 airlines worldwide use Sabre Airline Solution's broad portfolio of software
solutions for decision-support tools to increase revenues and improve
operations. Over 100 airlines worldwide rely on Sabre Airline Solutions for
passenger management solutions, with 15 new carriers added and nine carriers
renewals for SabreSonic Res advanced reservations and departure control systems
in 2003. In addition, more than 100 clients worldwide have turned to Sabre
Airline Solutions consulting group for strategic, commercial and operational
consulting. More than 500 contracts worldwide weresigned in 2003 within Sabre
Airline Solutions.
Sabre Holdings Corporation (NYSE:TSG) is a world leader in travel commerce,
retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions
for the travel industry. More information about Sabre Holdings is available at
http://www.sabre-holdings.com/ .
Sabre Airline Solutions, the Sabre Airline Solutions logo, SabreSonic and
AirFlite are trademarks and/or service marks of an affiliate of Sabre Holdings
Corporation. All other trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the
property of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: Sabre Airline Solutions
CONTACT: Kathryn Hayden of Sabre Airline Solutions, +1-682-605-2252, or
Web site: http://www.sabre-holdings.com/