Sam Gilliland
-
Face To Face With Sabre CEO Sam Gilliland
Sabre Holdings chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland recently sat down with Business Travel News editor ..... enabling ancillary airline services through the GDS? Sam Gilliland : What is important in the coming months and years is …
-
Execs Cite Improving Biz Travel Trends, Still Expect Slow Recovery
Senior industry executives speaking here at The Beat Live this week said there are some signs of life in business travel of late, although no one should expect a full recovery for quite some time."The trends we have seen in the last 10 or 12 weeks is that we are bottoming out in terms of the drops,
-
GDS CEOs Assess Changed Airline Negotiating Dynamics
… capabilities they are building. "I don't think you'll see a big bang," said Sabre Holdings chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland . "We've arrived at a pretty reasonable equilibrium over this last round in terms of pricing." Travelport GDS president …
-
Sabre Holdings CEO Sam Gilliland criticized WWF UK for urging firms to cut travel outright rather than focusing on carbon efficiency.
Sabre Holdings CEO Sam Gilliland criticized WWF UK for urging firms to "cut travel outright" rather than focusing on carbon efficiency. In a commentary published by Air and Business Travel News , Gilliland slammed WWF UK's One in Five Challenge for "singling out travel" with a "crash diet." "Make ...
-
View From The Top: BTN's 2008 CEO Interviews
… round of corporate negotiations and growth goals amid the financial freefall (October 6). Sabre's Sam Gilliland Sabre CEO Sam Gilliland spoke with BTN's Meyer, Boehmer and travel management editor Seth Harris to discuss the travel distribution …
-
One-On-One With Sabre's Martin Cowley: Sabre Employs EMEA Growth Strategies
… lot of people resort to pessimism in that kind of environment. We are where we are. I was on a call with Sabre CEO Sam Gilliland a couple of months ago, and I used a quote from the governor of the Bank of England: "In times like these, it is …
-
5Q With Sabre's Sam Gilliland
The Transnational in July spoke with Sabre Holdings Corp. chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland about international expansion and the evolution of global distribution systems. An excerpt of the discussion with Gilliland …
-
Inducements Up In GDS Turf Battle
… direction, it is still at least a component in agencies' selection of IT partners." Sabre Holdings chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland said there was no spike in inducements, but there has been an upward historic trend. "Certainly, we have heard …
-
One-On-One With Sabre's Sam Gilliland : CEO Sees Distribution Evolution
BTN editors last month spoke with Sabre CEO Sam Gilliland to discuss the travel distribution outlook, airline ..... earlier in the year. Are you seeing similar trends? Sam Gilliland : What we're seeing is reflective of what you also …
-
Fuel Costs Demand Legislative Action, Sabre CEO Tells NBTA
Los Angeles —Sabre chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland urged National Business Travel Association International Convention & Exposition attendees to press lawmakers to address the current …
