Sabre Airline Solutions

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Sabre Airline Solutions

• AGIFORS 2004

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Sabre Holdings Businesses
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Sabre Holdings Fast Facts

• Industry leader in multiple travel channels
• Revenues of 2.05 billion in 2003
• SP 500 company
• NYSETSG
• Headquarters in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
• 6,200 employees in 45 countries

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Sabre Airline Solutions

• Airline Products and Services
• Provides a broad rangeof software solutionsto
  airlines
• Reservations andDeparture Control
• Supports criticalairline functions sales,
  distributionand daily operations
• Hosts 90 airlines
• Consulting
• Focused industry experts to helpairlines achieve
  optimum results

Sabre Airline Solutions
Airline Reservations
Flight Operations
BusinessProcessManagement
Solutions at the Airport
CargoManagement
Maintenance and Engineering
Planning and Scheduling
Dining and Cabin Services
Crew Management
Fares Management and Revenue Management
Finance Systems
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Evolution of System Operations Control
Future Decision Support, Quantifiable Analysis
Late 1990s Integration, Co-location
SOC
Early 1990s Automation, Graphical
Early 1980s Manual, Host-based, Isolated
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Core Components

• Movement control
• Monitor aircraft movement during operations to
  assist airline management during regular and
  irregular operations
• Flight planning Dispatch
• Calculate, plan, and file with ATC flight route
  and altitudes based on aircraft performance,
  payload,and weather
• Load planning
• Plan cargo and passenger placement as dictatedby
  weight and balance calculations to insure safety
  and legality
• Maintenance Control
• Manage maintenance activities based on latest
  flight movements
• Crew Management
• Track crew movements and ensure crew legalities

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Evolving SOC Business Model
SOC
Decision Support
Crew
Pay Load
Ground Ops
Aircraft
Passenger
Flight Planning Dispatch Flight
Following ASD Weather Load Planning
Crew Scheduling Movement Control Flight Info Slot
Control Maintenance Control Aircraft Routing
Fleet Routing
Internal FIDS
Crew Management
Flight Scheduling
Ground Operations
Maintenance and Engineering
Operational Engineering
Marketing
Airport Authority
Public FIDS
Airport Operations
RES
Cargo
International Customs
FAA
DCS
ATC
Airport Command and Control
Aircraft
Weather Services
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SOC Key Success Factors

• Information support structure to allow SOC
  controllers to view needed data across
  organizational lines
• Decision support systems to evaluate complex
  operating options
• Accurate information and analysis
• Role of what-if simulations
• Communications capability to enable participants
  to work in collaboration and to transmit
  operating plans
• Facility to accommodate organizations business
  processes and information technology
• Authority to make binding decisions

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Benefits of Integration
SOC
Data accuracy
Communication exchanges
Coherent mechanism to manage data
Single cohesive unit
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Decision Support
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Decision Support
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Decision Support
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Integrated Operations Portfolio
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Flight Operations and Crew Product Direction

• Flight Operations and Crew are major segments in
  the Sabre Airline Solutions portfolio
• Our long-term commitment is demonstrated by our
  greater than 10 Million Flight Operations and
  Crew multi-year investment plan
• Investment includes
• Seamless integration of core products
• Single data entry
• Common look and feel
• Enhancements outlined by our focus groups
• Operations and Crew Recovery

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Summary

• The future of airline operations will be centered
  around
• Full integration of the core elements and access
  to surround components to maintain better control
  of the daily operations
• Efficient decision support systems that have been
  designed to assist airline controllers in making
  effective decisions both under normal operating
  conditions, and in the event of off schedule
  operations

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AGIFORS 2003

• COME SEE US IN
• Room 1426