Sabre (Semi-Automated Booking and Reservation Environment) was the world's first online airline reservations system. Developed through the joint efforts of IBM and American Airlines, it first went online in the fall of 1962, running on an IBM 7090 computer. After going through a series of system upgrades, including a relocation from Westchester County, NY to Tulsa, OK, the system remains operational today (2004) and was the prototype for virtually every mainframe-based online system that followed.
Sabre was based on real-time computing advances made by the US Air Force in the development of their SAGE radar-coordination and target tracking system.
The new reservations engine is designed for a heterogeneous computing world in which Sabre won't do anywhere near the amount of technological hand-holding it once did for airlines and other users of the system.
Airlines and travel agencies should now be able to run reservation centers with as many as 1,000 workers using either a traditional PC network or a Web-based setup that involves thin-client desktop devices, Sabre said.
Dahlstrom said the airline is also looking into using the new Sabresystem to create a data warehouse of passenger records as well as a separate database that would keep track of customers who buy large amounts of tickets.
Sabre is a computer reservationssystem used by airlines, railways, hotels, and other travel companies.
Their system for booking flights was entirely manual, having developed from the techniques originally developed at their Little Rock, AR reservations center in the 1920s.
The system also had limited room for growth, it was limited to about eight operators because that's all you could fit around the file, so in order to handle more queries the only solution was to add more layers of hierarchy to filter down requests into batches.
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