2000 to present
In 2000, Sabre Corporation was spun off of AMR Corporation to form an independent company.[11] The following year, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) purchased Sabre Holdings' airline hardware and communications business,[12] and Sabre began migrating its old mainframe for air travel shopping and pricing to HP NonStop and Linux servers.[13] In 2005, the company acquired lastminute.com, an online travel and leisure retailer.[14]
Sabre Corporation was acquired by Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners in March 2007.[15][16] In March 2010, the company acquired Calidris, a revenue integrity and business intelligence company.[17] Sabre Corporation acquired SoftHotel, a web-based property management provider, in June 2011.[18] The company launched Sabre Red App Centre in March 2012.[19] In April 2014, Sabre Corporation went public on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol SABR.[20][21] The IPO sold for $16 per share and valued Sabre at $3.93 billion.[22][23] The company acquired Genares, a hospitality technology company, that September.[24]
In December 2014, Bravofly Rumbo Group acquired Sabre European Online Travel Agency, lastminute.com. In January 2015, Sabre sold its Travelocity brand to Expedia, Inc. for $280 million.[25][26][27] In July 2015, Sabre acquired Abacus International, a global distribution system based in the Asia-Pacific region. The deal included long-term distribution agreements between Sabre and the 11 Asian airlines that previously shared ownership of Abacus.[28] In June 2016, Sabre announced Tom Klein would resign as CEO by the end of 2016.[29][30]
In October 2019 Sabre announced its purchase of Radixx for $110M. Radixx is a seller of passenger service software to small and budget airlines. Sabre expects Radixx to generate $20 million in 2019.[31] In October 2021, Sabre announced the sale of the AirCentre portfolio to CAE Inc for $392.5M.[32]
In May 2022 Sabre announced its purchase of Nuvola, a provider of hotel and service optimization software.[33] In August 2022, it acquired Conferma Pay, a UK-based payments company.[34] In March 2023, Sabre announced some executive changes as part of what it called its "long-term succession plan." The changes included Sean Menke transitioning to be sole Executive Chair effective April 27. At the same time, Kurt Ekert, who served as the president of Sabre, took over as CEO.[35]
In 2025, Sabre entered into a multi-year $1.56 billion partnership with Coforge, an Indian IT company.[36] It also sold its Hospitality Solutions division to TPG Inc.[37]
In 2026, the company went through a rebranding. This consisted in a new logo along with a new color scheme, with orange replacing the classical red. [38][39]
