Sabre vs Duffel
Want to avoid GDS surcharges and start selling flights in minutes?
Duffel is a state-of-the-art API for selling flights online with no up-front costs or GDS surcharges. Duffel handles accreditation and ticketing authority making it simple and fast to build a seamless travel experience for your customers.
How Sabre compares to Duffel
Feature | Duffel | Sabre |
|---|---|---|
| No prior knowledge of the travel industry required | A detailed understanding of the travel industry is necessary | |
| No requirement for accreditation | IATA/ARC license needs to be acquired and paid for | |
| No requirement for relationships with airlines | Develop individual relationships with each airline you wish to sell fares from | |
| No requirement for ticketing authority | Obtain ticketing authority with each airline and for each region you wish to sell fares from | |
| Simple usage based pricing with no upfront fees | GDS surcharge applies plus additional fees | |
| State of the art API Docs and Guides | Documentation is not developer-friendly | |
| Dedicated travel support | Limited access to customer support |
Why Duffel?
Pricing
With simple pay-as-you-go pricing you'll only ever pay for what you use. No monthly minimums or additional charges for ancillaries or refunds.
Speed of integration
Simple, composable APIs, comprehensive documentation, and a robust testing environment make building on Duffel as seamless as possible.
Customer support
We have a priority email inbox and phone number that pages on our on-call team to ensure immediate support at no additional cost.
Problem-solving across all sizes
Ulysse thrives by delivering its loyal customer base what they crave — a simple, sensible travel booking experience. The fast-rising online travel agent (OTA) has its roots in customer empathy and careful engineering.
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