JetBlue Renews and Expands Use of Sabre's Operational Solutions

JetBlue Airways is expanding it use of applications from Sabre Airline Solutions to help optimize its flight operations, crew management and resource management capabilities.  This follows JetBlue's decision to participate in the Sabre Travel Network global distribution system (GDS).

Besides renewing its commitment to Sabre's Flight Control Suite and Dispatch Manager, which is part of Sabre's AirOps Suite, JetBlue also added functions to its Sabre Streamline Resource Management Suite.

Flight Control includes Sabre's FliteTrac system, which JetBlue has interfaced with its CRS (computer reservation system) to graphically display real-time flight information with its customized colors to indicate flight status.  The system interfaces with other JetBlue systems to process complete flight movement messages with all relevant data on origin and destination; aircraft identification, flight number and date; estimated and actual times; fuel status; and customer lists.

JetBlue also renewed Sabre's CrewQual and CrewTrac systems as well as CrewTrac Voice, CrewTrac Web and FliteTrac Web, which are other Flight Control suite products.

The airline uses Sabre's Dispatch Manager to help develop and optimize flight plans and performance data, and to support new route planning and aircraft requirements.

Sabre's Streamline integrated suite is meant to help optimize staffing levels, build rosters based on user-defined restraints, automate employee administration tasks and provide decision support on the day of operation.  In order to increase its capabilities, JetBlue added Sabre's Streamline StaffPlan, RosterMaker, StaffAdmin and StaffManager systems to its application's suite that already included Streamline GatePlan and GateManager.  12-13-2006.

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