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American Airlines created their own computer system (SABRE) in the 60s. It spun off into its own company in the 2000s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Corp
by cbhl 9y ago
American Airlines created their own computer system (SABRE) in the 60s. It spun off into its own company in the 2000s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Corporation
- telesilla 9y agoI have a memory of accessing SABRE directly maybe in the late 90s to bypass travel agent websites, before services like Expedia etc exploded. Is that possible? Or am I remembering incorrectly.
- LeoPanthera 9y agoYes, it used to be accessible directly, and still is, at least with one level of indirection, via https://www.virtuallythere.com/ https://www.virtuallythere.com/ But this is also a red herring because I don't think sabre is used to manage pilots times off.
- soared 9y agoYou can find some interesting results by googling site:virtuallythere.com
- imroot 9y agoI think AA is still using SABRE internally for some components for crew scheduling; I did some SABRE work for them back in 2005/2006 as a contractor, and there were still bits and pieces of legacy code from the 90's in place when I was over there.
- js2 9y agoYou could access SABRE pre-1996 via online services such as The Source, CompuServe, GEnie and AOL. Sabre Holdings launched Travelocity in 1996.
- vermontdevil 9y agoI remember this too. Used to go in there to look around and play with all he variables (flight schedule, fares, etc). I think it was called EaasySabre
- tyingq 9y agoTrue, though that has little to do with crew scheduling and bidding software.