Sabre Corporation, a travel technology company headquartered in Southlake, Texas, is the largest global distribution systems (GDS) provider for air bookings.

In 2007, Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners acquired Sabre Holdings, the company's former name.

[2][3] In 1964, Sabre's nationwide network was completed and became the largest commercial real-time data-processing system in the world.

[7] It gave consumers with personal computers access to the Sabre system to make airline, hotel and car rental reservations.

[16] Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners acquired Sabre Corporation in March 2007.

[28] In December 2014, Bravofly Rumbo Group acquired Sabre European Online Travel Agency, lastminute.com.

[29][30][31] In July 2015, Sabre acquired Abacus International, a global distribution system based in the Asia-Pacific region.

The deal included long-term distribution agreements between Sabre and the 11 Asian airlines that previously shared ownership of Abacus.

[39] The company is based in Southlake, Texas and has additional offices in London, Kraków, Bangalore, Montevideo and Singapore.

[40] In December 2013, the company handled approximately 85,000 data transactions every second for customers according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.