British Airways Surcharge Means Travel Agents Won’t Get Lowest Fares Through Sabre
Photo Credit: Sabre is leaving it to agency partners to negotiate directly with the airline. Pictured is an image depicting Sabre from a hackathon in Las Vegas in June 2017. Sabre
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Airlines have learned that standing up to the global distribution system giants can actually yield benefits. It has been a hard-earned victory.
Sabre informed its travel agency and corporate customers that it signed a new distribution agreement with British Airways and Iberia Airlines, and it encouraged these customers to negotiate directly with the airlines for better content and pricing than Sabre, Amadeus, and Travelport will provide through their distribution systems, Skift has learned.
Skift obtained an internal email from Sabre to its customers informing them that agencies and corporate customers that get British Airways and Iberia fares and flights through S
