Sabre Completes Acquisition of the Trust Group; Transaction Expands Sabre's Hospitality Customer Base by 30 Percent

. January 18, 2016

SOUTHLAKE, TX. January 18, 2016 - Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the Trust Group, including Trust International, InnLink and Nexus. With this acquisition, Sabre Hospitality Solutions expands the portfolio of hotels it serves by more than 30 percent, totaling approximately 32,000 worldwide.

A leading global central reservation, revenue management and hotel marketing provider, the Trust Group serves independent and small-to-mid-size chain hotels and has a strong presence in Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

“The success of Sabre and Trust is based on our ability to deliver mission-critical technology solutions to help our customers achieve their revenue, operational and guest experience goals,” said Tom Klein, president and chief executive officer of Sabre. “Together, we will help transform the hospitality industry through a combined SaaS platform offering the scale, depth and breadth that hoteliers of all sizes need for the future.”

The Trust Group's broad capabilities and unique solutions along with its strong customer base in EMEA and Asia Pacific will help accelerate Sabre's global growth in the hospitality sector and strengthen its position in these key markets.

About Sabre

Sabre Corporation is the leading technology provider to the global travel industry. Sabre's software, data, mobile and distribution solutions are used by hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotel properties to manage critical operations, including passenger and guest reservations, revenue management, flight, network and crew management. Sabre also operates a leading global travel marketplace, which processes more than $120 billion of estimated travel spend annually by connecting travel buyers and suppliers. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world.

Forward-looking statements

Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements about trends, future events, uncertainties and our plans and expectations of what may happen in the future. Any statements that are not historical or current facts are forward-looking statements. In many cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “will,” “expect,” “may,” “anticipate” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Sabre's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the closing, integration and effects of the acquisition described in this release, dependency on transaction volumes in the global travel industry, particularly air travel transaction volumes, adverse global and regional economic and political conditions, including, but not limited to, conditions in Venezuela and Russia, dependence on maintaining and renewing contracts with customers and other counterparties, exposure to pricing pressure in the Travel Network business, dependence on relationships with travel buyers, changes affecting travel supplier customers, travel suppliers' usage of alternative distribution models, and competition in the travel distribution market and solutions markets. More information about potential risks and uncertainties that could affect our business and results of operations is included in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in Sabre's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014, in “Risk Factors” in Part II, Item 1A of Sabre's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2015, in “Risk Factors” included as an exhibit to Sabre's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 4, 2015, and in subsequent public statements or reports we file with or furnish to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future events, results, actions, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Unless required by law, Sabre undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect circumstances or events after the date they are made.

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