Sabre Blends Distribution Network and Airline Units Under New Leadership
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
