Pricing prompts suit

Fri., April 22, 2011

NEW YORK – US Airways Group Inc. is suing Sabre Holdings Corp., saying the operator of reservations systems shuts out competition to protect monopoly pricing power. Airlines pay a fee to the distributors for each ticket sold, and they say that fee is too high. US Airways just signed a new contract with Sabre last month. Sabre is even more important to airlines than other fare distributors, because it is mainly used by travel agents who book corporate travel.

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