GetThere’s New SNCF Direct Connection Enhances Online Rail Booking for Corporations and Business Travel Agencies in France

Flexible solution incorporates air and rail options in an updated user interface

London, UK, 9 June 2008 – GetThere®, the world's leading online corporate travel procurement solution, today announced the introduction of enhanced SNCF French Rail booking capability via the national rail line’s new RIVA 3 platform.  The direct connection combines the flexible fare and seat class options of SNCF’s RIVA 3 platform with GetThere’s user interface, which displays both air and rail travel selections to travellers and travel arrangers booking online.

GetThere facilitated the booking of $9.4 billion (USD) in online travel in 2007, and more than 3,000 companies in 40 countries worldwide use GetThere today.

The new rail booking capability leverages GetThere’s streamlined, leisure-like interface with the shopping power of SNCF’s new platform, giving France-based travellers streamlined access to SNCF, Eurostar and Thalys fares. SNCF and GetThere performed joint usability testing on this enhancement, ensuring that the shopping and booking process is simple for novice and veteran users of self-booking technology. Other highlights include:

• Shop air and rail options in one matrix
• Travellers can compare costs in a display that is consistent with traditional air shopping
• Combinable flexibility levels
• Compose round trips by combining different fare types on outbound and inbound itineraries
• Negotiated rates
• All negotiated rates can be displayed and identified, guiding travellers to policy-compliant choices
• E-ticketing
• Paperless transactions increase tracking capabilities, reduce manual errors
• Manageable fare displays
• Travel managers can exclude specific fares from appearing
• Capability to label fares as ‘Company Preferred’ helps meet contracted usage goals

SNCF and GetThere worked together to deliver this enhancement, which builds upon work completed on earlier SNCF platforms, to deliver a best-in-class online booking solution for corporate travellers in France. The new solution works on the Amadeus and Sabre global distribution systems today, with rollout for Galileo users on track for later this year.

“GetThere’s product development team put in the time and testing to deliver an impressive solution for the growing number of corporates that book SNCF rail online,” said Valérie Assayag, SNCF Sales Director for Travel Agencies and Corporates.

“The interface makes it seamless for bookers, and the behind-the-scenes technology serves up multiple policy-compliant options at the point of sale.” said Jérôme Bourreau, Deputy CEO on VSC Technologies, SNCF technology partner.

 “We continuously work with our suppliers to provide convenient, cost-effective shopping and booking processes for business travellers, said GetThere EMEA sales director Annette Forbes-Marsden. “It’s all part of our ongoing commitment to deliver the widest range of content through the most efficient booking process in the marketplace.”

About GetThere

GetThere is the world's leading online corporate travel reservation technology, and is one of the key solutions offered to the corporate marketplace by Sabre Holdings Corporation. GetThere enables global corporations and government agencies to provide a convenient way for employees to book travel and plan meetings while significantly reducing costs. GetThere's advanced technology works with all major global distribution systems (GDS) and all travel management companies. More than 3,000 corporations, including 60 percent of the Fortune 200 companies that have online booking sites, use GetThere. More information is available at www.getthere.com.

Sabre Holdings (NYSE: TSG) connects people with the world’s greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. More information about Sabre Holdings is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com.