You must never fly on an airline belonging to Star Alliance, as Google bought ITA Software (formerly known as Sabre) to get a hold of all the airline reservatio

You must never fly on an airline belonging to Star Alliance, as Google bought ITA Software (formerly known as Sabre) to get a hold of all the airline reservations done For the record, this is false. ITA Software was an independent company established in the late 90s, which built flight search technology that powered (and still powers) some of the leading flight search websites including Kayak. It has always been completely independent of Sabre, which was formed in the 1960s and is one of the major travel reservation systems. Google did aquire ITA, but that only got them flight search technology, not reservation data. Sabre remains a standalone company.