July 2008

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 AFTA National Travel Industry Awards
 

The team at Sabre Pacific would like to congratulate all the nominees and finalists in the National Travel Industry Awards (NTIA) 2008! In particular, we commend our business partners on their high achievement!

Sabre Pacific is a proud finalist in the category - Best Agency Support Service.

Winners will be announced at the NTIA to be held Saturday 5th July 2008 at The Westin, Sydney.

Goodluck to all our partners!

The winner is...

Congratulations to the team at Macquarie Group Travel who are the lucky winners of a Garmin Nuvi portable GPS!

Macquarie Group Travel won this prize as part of the Sabre Returns Avis Car Rental promotion run in April - May 2008.

For more promotions, see our Sabre Returns section below!

Important changes to the Tax Display format

The existing tax display action code TX* will be disabled on Tuesday 22nd July 2008. Any attempt to use the TX* format after this date will result in the following message:

TX*
ACTION CODE NOT  ACTIVE REFER TO TXNHELP
 

The replacement tax display action code TXN was activated for all Sabre subscribers on the 17th June 2008.

The TXN* Tax Display input has improved presentation of the tax information, with additional functionality including the ability of agencies to view multiple types of tax information. All TXN* commands are unique and display specific data depending on the qualifier you use.

For further information on this enhancement, please refer to Format Finder reference calfo015 or the TXNHELP command which allows you to view the TXN formats available for display.

Hong Kong Airlines and Air Madagascar join list of participating Electronic Ticketing (ET) Carriers

Effective immediately Hong Kong Airlines (HX) and Air Madagascar (MD) will be the latest carriers to provide ET for Sabre Connected Agents.

Electronic Ticketing on Hong Kong Airlines and Air Madagascar is fully interactive with ET issuance, as well as the ability to Void, Exchange and Refund. Air Madagascar also additionally allows consultants the ability to perform Revalidation transactions.

With the IATA initiative to move to 100% ET, Sabre continues to provide all travel agency partners with the most comprehensive content for our region and the world on just one screen.

Midwest Airlines and Shandong Airlines enhance their availability connection with Sabre

Effective immediately, Sabre is pleased to announce that Midwest Airlines (YX) and Shandong Airlines (SC) will participate as a Direct Connect Availability carrier within Sabre.
 
Direct Connect Availability represents the highest participation level in connectivity in the Sabre system. With Direct Connect Availability, an interactive message between the Sabre system and the participating airline enables seamless, "real-time" access to the airline inventory during the availability process and allows last-seat inventory displays.

These changes now make booking Midwest Airlines (YX) and Shandong Airlines (SC) via Sabre very efficient and will ensure increased productivity and increased confidence in the availability display.

For more information on Direct Connect Availability, please refer to Format Finder reference: dcaov201
 

Sabre Returns rewards you!

With every booking made on Sabre Specialty Products before 31st July 2008, you will earn 500 Sabre Returns points! For more information, click here.

For more information including conditions or to register with Sabre Returns, visit: www.sabrepacific.com.au/returns

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