ATHENS, Greece – Mar 15, 2017
Sky Express, a prominent airline operating one of the largest domestic flight network in Greece, is embarking on a new phase of its expansion plans, focusing on diversifying its reach to additional revenue streams and servicing a broader customer base. The airline will reach the travel agency channel through an exclusive new relationship with global travel technology leader Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), which operates one of the world’s largest travel marketplaces, connecting airlines with travel agencies.
Using Sabre, the airline will have access to a set of software solutions and capabilities that will be critical to improving the way the airline markets and sells its fares, automates commercial processes, and manages electronic ticketing across sales channels. With access in the Sabre travel marketplace, Sabre connected travel agencies in Greece will have the ability to sell Sky Express tickets to travellers. In addition, millions of online shoppers searching on multiple online travel sites that Sabre supports will for the first time be able to compare and purchase Sky Express flights and fares.
“This is a landmark and unique agreement that aims to expand revenue opportunities and enhance customer service for Sky Express and our broad travel agency community, bringing their air fares to our leading booking platform while helping the airline to initiate a rapid transformation of their commercial operations leveraging the latest air-commerce capabilities developed by Sabre,” said Andreas Syrigos, country director of Sabre in Greece.
“We are looking forward to expand our reach to new channels and work with travel agencies as strategic partners to offer our value proposition to millions of travellers,” said Niki Karagkoule Karageorgou, CEO of Sky Express. “The real-time connectivity to agency and corporate subscribers to Sabre combined with capabilities for instant booking confirmation and ticket changes will drive our commercial transformation ahead”.
With this agreement, Sky Express joins more than 400 regional and global carriers that leverage Sabre technology to market and sell airfares and ancillaries. With 12 years of innovative and qualitative presence in the airline industry, Sky Express has operated over 70,000 all year round flights, and Sabre customers in Greece are now in a unique position to take advantage of this distribution agreement to increase their production and to address their customers’ needs for traveling within Greece.
About Sky Express
Sky Express is a member of ERA and operates to more than 25 destinations within Greece, mainly by connecting the most popular Greek Islands with mainland. The core business of Sky Express consists of operating scheduled passenger flights, but also operates charter flights. Sky Express fleet is consisted mainly of ATR42 aircrafts.
Sky Express brand name is linked with safety, comfort and value for money. In 2014, Sky Express was presented with the ERA Silver Award, as airline of the year 2014/2015. Sky Express offers high quality service through free access to Business Lounges facilities, for all its passengers departing from Athens and or Thessaloniki, free handbag and baggage for all fares and in-flight service.
The airline serves the following domestic destinations throughout the year: Athens, Heraklion, Thessaloniki, Santorini, Zakynthos, Mykonos, Milos, Naxos, Skiathos, Ikaria, Rhodes, Kos, Siros, Karpathos, Paros, Astypalaia, Samos, Chios, Sitia, Alexandroupolis, Kasos, Corfu, Preveza, Kefalonia and Kithira. In addition Sky Express has developed an exciting Island Hopper product, which provides a highly attractive service for many tourists during their vacation in Greece, enabling them to visit at least one additional Greek destination, supporting the Greek tourism in regional airports.
About Sabre Corporation
Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) 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 Entrada
Entrada is an online travel reservation platform that allows the users to buy, sell and distribute via Internet, all of their travel related products & services. It also offers a flexible and customizable B2B, B2C & B2B2C online booking engine which couples together schedules & LCC flights with various land services (hotels, transfers, packages, rental cars, etc.) Currently there are more than 800000 online bookable hotels in our system, more than 10,000 transfer services in 80 countries & 2,500 major cities, rental cars in 180 countries & 10,500 locations, scheduled and private flight fares from Sabre and from more than 100 low-cost airlines.
