LONDON and SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Dec.
4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Wizz Air, Europe's greenest airline and leading low cost
carrier in Central Eastern Europe, has selected Sabre Corporation
(NASDAQ: SABR), the leading technology provider to the global
travel industry, as a strategic partner to enhance its network
planning and scheduling technology. With this new agreement, Wizz
Air joins a portfolio of more than 80 airlines that have
implemented Sabre's leading technology to optimize complex schedule
and slot management processes.
Sabre has a strong reputation in driving results through its
intelligent planning and scheduling solutions. Empowering
collaborative and intelligent decision-making, Sabre AirVision
Schedule Manager helps airlines build and deliver robust, accurate
and operationally feasible schedules across their networks. This
proven solution has helped airlines achieve up to 9% incremental
operating profit and up to 12% increase in productivity.
Wizz Air has implemented Sabre AirVision Slot Manager and
Schedule Manager, equipping it with the right mechanisms to reduce
the risks of losing valuable historic slot rights, while enabling
increased productivity and a fast response to rescheduling.
"Adopting the right planning and scheduling technology has a
significant impact on revenue optimization and cost reduction, as
well as running a robust and efficient operation," said
George Michalopoulos, chief
commercial officer at Wizz Air. "Sabre's end-to-end planning and
scheduling suite provides Wizz Air with the intelligence and
flexibility needed to deploy optimized schedules."
Sabre's agreement with Wizz Air reflects its ongoing investment
in creating technology solutions that are perfectly adapted to the
requirements of different airline business models. With a customer
community that includes a portfolio of airlines in the network,
low-cost and ultra-low-cost categories, Sabre is consistently
driving innovation through its partnerships.
"Wizz Air has a solid and ambitious plan for profitable
expansion, and therefore needed a strong technology partner," said
Alessandro Ciancimino, vice
president sales Europe, Travel
Solutions, Sabre. "Sabre's suite of technology helps airlines
to get schedules to market faster, rapidly respond to market
conditions in real time, and more efficiently manage a growing
network of routes – which will help it position itself
competitively, and differentiate itself among increased
competition."
About Sabre Corporation
Sabre Corporation is the
leading technology provider to the global travel industry. Sabre's
software, data, mobile and distribution solutions are used by
hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotel properties to manage
critical operations, including passenger and guest reservations,
revenue management, flight, network and crew management. Sabre also
operates a leading global travel marketplace, which processes more
than US$120 billion of global travel
spend annually by connecting travel buyers and suppliers.
Headquartered in Southlake, Texas,
USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the
world.
About Wizz Air
Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline
in Central and Eastern Europe,
offers more than 700 routes from 25 bases, connecting 152
destinations across 44 countries. A team of more than 5,000
aviation professionals delivers superior service and very low fares
making Wizz Air the preferred choice of 38 million
passengers in the past 12 months. WIZZ operates an all-Airbus
fleet of 120 aircraft. Its A320s are equipped with 180
seats, its A321s with 230 seats and its A321neo aircraft with 239
seats. According to the latest data of the Swiss airline
intelligence provider CH-Aviation, Wizz Air has one of the youngest
airline fleets in the world.
Wizz Air is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker
WIZZ and is included in the FTSE 250 and FTSE All-Share Indices.
Wizz Air is registered under the International Air Transport
Association (IATA), Operational Safety Audit (IOSA), the global
benchmark in airline safety recognition. The company was recently
named one of the world's top ten safest airlines
by airlineratings.com, the world's only safety and product
rating agency, and 2019 - Airline of the Year by Air Transport
Awards the only international awards that recognizes the year's
most outstanding performers in the aerospace industry in the most
important categories.
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Sabre media contact:
Jess
Matthias
Sabre
sabrenews@sabre.com
Wizz Air media contact:
Andras
Rado
Wizz Air Group
communications@wizzair.com
Instagram: @wizzair
Facebook: @wizzair
Twitter: @wizzair
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