British Airways has signed a three-year inventory distribution deal with Sabre TravelNetwork which will give the GDS’s travel agent subscribers access to all of BA’s fares. The inventory will be available to all Sabre connected-travel agents worldwide.
The new Sabre opt-in program guarantees travel agents in the UK and Ireland, through adjusted financial terms with Sabre, full access to the current BA content, including the complete range of published fares the airline sells through its own web site, any third-party website, and its own reservation offices.
In other words, agents are paying a portion of the GDS fee in exchange for full access to content, in the same way they “opted-in” under BA’s previous Sabre contract.
BA reached a similar agreement with the Galileo distribution system a little more than two weeks ago, but not with its soon-to-be sister company, Worldpsan.
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