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To: SpinCity1 who wrote (66858)4/8/1999 10:21:00 AM
From: If only I'd held  Respond to of 119973
 
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TRAVELOCITY.CA LAUNCHES IN CANADA; SITE TO INCLUDE DIRECTORY OF CANADIAN
Travel Agencies and Local Customer Service Centre

TORONTO, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- From a reception held last night at
the Indian Motorcycle Cafe, Sabre (NYSE: TSG) launched Travelocity.ca
(http://www.travelocity.ca). The site provides travel reservations
capabilities and localized travel planning news, as well as offers and
promotions specific to Canada.

"With an estimated 7.3 million Internet users and plans to be the most
wired nation by the year 2000, Canada is a prime location for the
expansion of our leading travel site," said Terrell Jones, president of
Travelocity.com. "Launching Travelocity.ca allows us to deliver online
travel services, rich with Canadian-focused content and homepage, to
one of our most important markets."

Travelocity.ca provides features tailored specifically to the
Canadian market, including:

* Canadian news and information such as fare sales, rail schedules and
traveller advice
* Popular vacation spots for Canadian travellers
* Pricing in Canadian dollars and local ticket fulfillment
* Bilingual customer support 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week

"The leadership position Travelocity.com holds in the U.S. market
is attributed to our innovative features and services along with our
ability to provide travellers with a fast, convenient and secure way to
book their travel online," said Jones. "With Travelocity.ca, we are
able to customize these features and services to the needs of our
Canadian members."

Members who book their travel through Travelocity.ca have the option of
receiving their tickets from one of more than 400 Canadian Sabre travel
agencies or through the Travelocity.ca Customer Service Centre operated
by Rider-BTI Travel in Ottawa, Ontario.

Rider-BTI Travel Group, the leading Canadian owned and operated
national corporate travel management company, operates the customer
service centre giving Travelocity.ca members bilingual customer support
24-hours-a-day, seven days a week. With the customer service centre,
members benefit from quick delivery with tickets printed and mailed in
Canada.

"Rider-BTI is committed to providing quality customer service and
outstanding travel technology," said Paul Rogers, vice president of
marketing and business development for Rider-BTI. "We are excited to
work with Travelocity.ca to provide its members with the ultimate in
customer support."

Additional features available on Travelocity.ca include:
* Best fare finder -- Travelocity.ca interprets complicated fare rules and
takes members directly from the fare to the flight by showing them which
days to travel in order to get the lowest fare.
* Destination Guide -- A travel guide to more than 275 destinations around
the world combining the best features from several guide books including
Lonely Planet and The World Travel Guide.
* Shop Safe Guarantee -- An added assurance against unauthorized credit
card usage. With Shop Safe Guarantee, Sabre will reimburse the customer's
liability fee, up to $75, provided the transaction was made on
Travelocity.ca using the site's secure server.
* Travel Agency Locator -- Members who book their air travel on
Travelocity.ca can choose to have their tickets fulfilled by the more than
400 Canadian Sabre-equipped travel agents listed in the site's Travel
Agency Locator. To specify an agent, members can search by postal code or
their agent's identification code.

Travelocity.ca is owned and operated by Sabre. Travelocity.ca
provides reservations capabilities for 95 percent of all airline seats
sold, more than 40,000 hotels, and more than 50 car rental companies.
This reservation capability is paired with access to a vast database of
destination and interest information. To date, Sabre has sold more
than 3 million airline tickets online, and since its launch in March of
1996, Travelocity.com has registered more than 5 million members and
logs more than 65 million page views per month.

Sabre is a world leader in the electronic distribution of travel and is
a leading provider of information technology solutions for the travel
and transportation industries, including customized software
development and software products, transaction processing, consulting
and total information technology outsourcing.

Current Sabre news releases may be accessed via the Internet. Visit
our Web site at sabre.com.

Sabre and the Sabre logo are registered trademarks of an affiliate of
The SABRE Group, Inc., soon to be known as Sabre Inc.
SOURCE Sabre

-0- 04/08/99 /CONTACT: Judy Haveson,
713-546-2230, or judy@vollmerpr.com, or Dawn Caesar, 713-546-2230, or
dawn@vollmerpr.com, both of Vollmer Public Relations, for Sabre/

/Web site: travelocity.ca
sabre.com

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