Thursday, September 11, 2008

Sabre Buys Flight Explorer

Southlake, Texas-based Sabre Holdings said Thursday that it has acquired Flight Explorer, a provider of real-time tracking and reporting on aircraft. Financial terms fo the acquisition were not disclosed. Virginia-based Flight Explorer's flight tracking products are used by the aviation industry, private pilots, and others to track the status of flights and as a data-feed to in-house flight tracking systems. Sabre said that Flight Explorer will become part of Sabre airline Solutions.