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Real-world, hands-on, online training courses on the Sabre GDS Travel Reservations Systems. Globally recognized training. Gain experience while you learn.

The Sabre training curriculum consists of the online courses listed below. Click or scroll down to learn more and register.

Sabre Training Courses


Course: INTRODUCTION TO SABRE
Completion Time: 45 hours
Course Structure: 20 Lessons, 3 Quizzes, 1 Final Exam
Cost: USD $199
Course Description: A fast-paced yet thorough introduction to the Sabre GDS.
Subjects Covered...
"Bargain Finder" fare search, Format Finder, PNR data change and delete, PNR mandatory fields, PNR optional fields, building a complete PNR, car bookings, changing segment status, classes of service, encode/decode cities, airports and airlines, fare quote, fares, fare displays, flight availability, flight service information, hotel bookings, introduction to reducing/dividing PNRs, itinerary pricing, queues, rules, seat assignments, seat maps, sign-off, sign-on, storing a fare, ticketing.

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Training Package: COMPREHENSIVE SABRE
Completion Time: 100 hours
Overall Structure: 70 Lessons, 16 Exercises, 20 Quizzes, 5 Final Exams (one exam per course)
Cost: USD $399
Package Description: A bundle of five courses providing comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the Sabre Reservations System.
Courses Included: Airline Reservations, Automated Fares and Ticketing, Car Reservations, Hotel Reservations, Amtrak Reservations
Subjects Covered...
Course 1, Airline Reservations: Agent assembly areas, ARNK segments, basic and advanced city pair availability, basic and advanced PNR fields, book/cancel/rebook/insert segments, calculator functions, calendar functions, change and delete PNR fields, change segment status, currency conversion, DRS, encode/decode, flight details displays, Format Finder, open segments, queues, reduce/divide party, retrieve PNR, passive segments, seat maps and assignments, sign in/out, STARs, waitlist segments. Course 2, Automated Fares and Ticketing: "Bargain Finder" fare search, fare displays, fare rules, foreign currency fare displays, FP line, FP line delete, FP line form of payment, FP line validating carrier, print tickets, print tickets from queue, print tickets with no FP line, rebook itinerary using "Bargain Finder" entry, "Shopper's" fare display, WP entry, WP entry connection indicator, WP entry segment selection, WP entry sell city/ticket city, WP line passenger selection. Course 3, Rental Car Reservations: Availability, availability from segment, availability redisplay and change, availability with modifiers, book from a shoppers car quote display, book from a single-company car quote, book from availability, book from referenced segment, book with optional modifiers, car information displays, car location lists, car quote redisplay and change, car rules displays, car segment modification, corporate car policy displays, direct connect link, extra-day/hour charge displays, local policy displays, shoppers car quote, shoppers car quote by segment, shoppers car quote from location list, shoppers car quote with modifiers, single-company car quote, single-company car quote by segment, single-company car quote from location list, single-company car quote with modifiers, vehicle codes. Course 4, Hotel Reservations: SHAARP PLUS, book a hotel room, book direct, book from index, book with optional fields, description displays, description displays with modifiers, direct connect hotels, encode states and countries, guarantee policy, hotel segment modification, index, index by reference point, index from PNR segment, index redisplay and update, index with no dates, index with search qualifiers, rate description, reference point lists, reference points, search qualifiers. Course 5, Amtrak Reservations: Accessing the Amtrak system, Displaying Amtrak station codes, Amtrak fares, Amtrak availability, Booking a reservation, Entering pricing instructions into an Amtrak itinerary, Best Buy Program, Ticketing an Amtrak itinerary, Claiming a PNR booked with Amtrak, Checking train status, Canceling an Amtrak reservation, Amtrak DRS pages.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see the Outline, take the Demo, ask a Question



Course: TICKET EXCHANGES WITH SABRE
Completion Time: 15 hours
Course Structure: 8 Lessons, 4 Exams
Cost: USD $119
Course Description: Provides detailed coverage of how to perform ticket exchanges using the Sabre GDS... including background information about common ticket exchange scenarios and how to read fare rules and ticket information pertaining to an exchange... plus hands-on practice of the Sabre "Automated Exchanges" tool for carrying out various ticket exchange types.
Note: There are separate ARC (US) and International (BSP) versions of this course. You will be assigned to the relevant course depending on which country you register from.
Subjects Covered... See outline below.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see the Outline, take the Demo, ask a Question



Course: SABRE: MOVING FROM APOLLO
Completion Time: 30 hours
Course Structure: 15 Lessons, 4 Quizzes, 1 Final Exam
Cost: USD $199
Course Description: A specially designed course for experienced Apollo users. This course will leverage your knowledge of Apollo to teach you Sabre in a fraction of the time.
Subjects Covered...
Bargain Finder system, Direct Access, Format Finder, ICK, Multi Access system, PNR data change, PNR data delete, PNR mandatory fields, PNR optional fields, STARs, Total Access, agent assembly areas, arrival-unknown segment, booking-confirmed segments, calculator functions, car book, car lists, car policies, car quotes, car rules, change segment status, currency conversion, date and time functions, decode, divide a party, encode, fare quotes, flight availability, flight details, hotel book, hotel descriptions, hotel indexes, itinerary pricing (WP and FP), itinerary verification, open segments, printer functions, printing tickets, queues, rebook, reduce a party, rules, seat assignment, seat maps, segment insertion, signing in and out, ticketing, waitlist segments.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see the Outline, take the Demo, ask a Question



Course: SABRE: MOVING FROM GALILEO
Completion Time: 30 hours
Course Structure: 15 Lessons, 4 Quizzes, 1 Final Exam
Cost: USD $199
Course Description: A specially designed course for experienced Galileo users. This course will leverage your knowledge of Galileo to teach you Sabre in a fraction of the time.
Subjects Covered...
Bargain Finder system, Direct Access, Format Finder, ICK, Multi Access system, PNR data change, PNR data delete, PNR mandatory fields, PNR optional fields, STARs, Total Access, agent assembly areas, arrival-unknown segment, booking-confirmed segments, calculator functions, car book, car lists, car policies, car quotes, car rules, change segment status, currency conversion, date and time functions, decode, divide a party, encode, fare quotes, flight availability, flight details, hotel book, hotel descriptions, hotel indexes, itinerary pricing (WP and FP), itinerary verification, open segments, printer functions, printing tickets, queues, rebook, reduce a party, rules, seat assignment, seat maps, segment insertion, signing in and out, ticketing, waitlist segments.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see the Outline, take the Demo, ask a Question



Course: SABRE – AIRLINE RESERVATIONS
Completion Time: 50 hours
Course Structure: 33 Lessons, 8 Exercises, 10 Quizzes, 1 Final Exam
Cost: USD $199
Course Description: Provides detailed coverage of all Sabre functions related to air and flight bookings. This course teaches you how to construct complete reservations (PNRs) for itineraries that include flight bookings only. It also covers Sabre reference systems that can assist with airline reservations. (Note: This course also comes bundled with the Sabre Comprehensive Training Package.)
Subjects Covered...
Agent assembly areas, ARNK segments, basic and advanced city pair availability, basic and advanced PNR fields, book/cancel/rebook/insert segments, calculator functions, calendar functions, change and delete PNR fields, change segment status, currency conversion, DRS, encode/decode, flight details displays, Format Finder, open segments, queues, reduce/divide party, retrieve PNR, passive segments, seat maps and assignments, sign in/out, STARs, waitlist segments.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see the Outline, take the Demo, ask a Question



Course: SABRE – AUTOMATED FARES AND TICKETING
Completion Time: 25 hours
Course Structure: 10 Lessons, 3 Exercises, 3 Quizzes, 1 Final Exam
Cost: USD $129
Course Description: Provides detailed coverage of all Sabre functions related to fares, pricing, and ticketing... including invoicing functions, ticket exchanges and refunds. (Note: This course also comes bundled with the Sabre Comprehensive Training Package.)
Subjects Covered...
"Bargain Finder" fare search, fare displays, fare rules, foreign currency fare displays, FP line, FP line delete, FP line form of payment, FP line validating carrier, print tickets, print tickets from queue, print tickets with no FP line, rebook itinerary using "Bargain Finder" entry, "Shopper's" fare display, WP entry, WP entry connection indicator, WP entry segment selection, WP entry sell city/ticket city, WP line passenger selection, invoice and itinerary functions, ticket exchange and refund.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see the Outline, take the Demo, ask a Question



Course: SABRE – CAR RESERVATIONS
Completion Time: 25 hours
Course Structure: 9 Lessons, 3 Exercises, 3 Quizzes, 1 Final Exam
Cost: USD $129
Course Description: Provides detailed coverage of all Sabre functions related to car reservations... including functions to search and book rental cars, and find the most convenient car rental locations. (Note: This course also comes bundled with the Sabre Comprehensive Training Package.)
Subjects Covered...
Availability, availability from segment, availability redisplay and change, availability with modifiers, book from a shoppers car quote display, book from a single-company car quote, book from availability, book from referenced segment, book with optional modifiers, car information displays, car location lists, car quote redisplay and change, car rules displays, car segment modification, corporate car policy displays, direct connect link, extra-day/hour charge displays, local policy displays, shoppers car quote, shoppers car quote by segment, shoppers car quote from location list, shoppers car quote with modifiers, single-company car quote, single-company car quote by segment, single-company car quote from location list, single-company car quote with modifiers, vehicle codes.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see the Outline, take the Demo, ask a Question



Course: SABRE – HOTEL RESERVATIONS
Completion Time: 25 hours
Course Structure: 12 Lessons, 2 Exercises, 3 Quizzes, 1 Final Exam
Cost: USD $129
Course Description: Provides detailed coverage of all Sabre functions related to hotel reservations... including functions to search and book hotel rooms, and find hotels that meet specific client criteria. (Note: This course also comes bundled with the Sabre Comprehensive Training Package.)
Subjects Covered...
SHAARP PLUS, book a hotel room, book direct, book from index, book with optional fields, description displays, description displays with modifiers, direct connect hotels, encode states and countries, guarantee policy, hotel segment modification, index, index by reference point, index from PNR segment, index redisplay and update, index with no dates, index with search qualifiers, rate description, reference point lists, reference points, search qualifiers.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see the Outline, take the Demo, ask a Question



Course: SABRE – AMTRAK RESERVATIONS
Completion Time: 10 hours
Course Structure: 3 Lessons, 1 Quiz, 1 Final Exam
Cost: USD $99
Course Description: Provides detailed coverage of all Sabre functions related to Amtrak rail reservations... including functions to search, book, and price Amtrak rail... as well as check train status, and claim reservations made externally in the native Amtrak res system. (Note: This course also comes bundled with the Sabre Comprehensive Training Package.)
Subjects Covered...
Accessing the Amtrak system, Displaying Amtrak station codes, Amtrak fares, Amtrak availability, Booking a reservation, Entering pricing instructions into an Amtrak itinerary, Best Buy Program, Ticketing an Amtrak itinerary, Claiming a PNR booked with Amtrak, Checking train status, Canceling an Amtrak reservation, Amtrak DRS pages.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see the Outline, take the Demo, ask a Question