SOUTHLAKE, Texas -- Sabre scrapped its Travelocity Agent Program,
only nine months after launching the initiative.
The program allowed Sabre-wired agencies to use a cobranded
Travelocity site to book travel and earn commissions.
Sabre said agencies using the Travelocity site were notified
that the link will be deactivated by mid-February.
A company spokeswoman said Sabre offers sufficient alternatives
-- including Agent 59 (the agency version of Travelocity's Site59)
and Sabre's leisure group, the Jurni Network -- that allow agents
to access content outside of the GDS.
Unlike when Sabre launched TAP, subscribers now can access to
Web fares in the GDS, the spokeswoman added.
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