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Old Apr 14, 1999 | 8:00 pm
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Adios Easysabre

Just received an e-mail with official notice of the demise of Easysabre on June 15th. Bummer!

Dear easySABRE Member,

Thank you for being a valued customer of easySABRE. This groundbreaking
product, launched over 13 years ago, has satisfied the travel needs of millions
of customers during its long run. Today, however, it is less than 1% the size of
Travelocity.com and thus on June 15, 1999 easySABRE will be phased out in
order to allow our development team to focus its efforts on updating and
enhancing Travelocity.com.

We know that you have chosen to use easySABRE rather than Travelocity.com,
so we have been working hard to add features to Travelocity.com so that it can
serve you as well as easySABRE has. Travelocity.com is the most powerful,
one-stop travel site on the net and now incorporates many of the services already
familiar to you as an easySABRE user.

As an easySABRE user, you are already a member of Travelocity.com. To log
in to Travelocity.com, simply go to http://www.travelocity.com and log in using
your current easySABRE login ID and password. Please feel free to email us at
[email protected] or call us at 1-888-709-5983 if you have any questions
about using Travelocity.com. You can also visit
http://www2.travelocity.com/easysabre/faq.html for answers to frequently asked
questions concerning the phase out of easySABRE.

If you are worried about speed, we have a new text based reservations feature.
Just click on Text Based Reservations under Travel Tools on the Travelocity.com
home page. The graphics are removed which means more speed! We're also
upgrading our servers and adding more internet capacity to speed things along.

Many of you have remarked about the lack of fare basis codes in Travelocity.com.
Over the years you've become as proficient as travel agents in looking at codes
and reading complex fare rules. We think we have removed the need for these
complex codes and rules with our new best fare finder feature. This product takes
the rules and converts them into an easy to read calendar so just a few clicks will
lead you to the lowest fare. You can access best fare finder via:

- Fare Watcher Email: With this free service, you can monitor up to 5 destinations
and Travelocity.com will email you each time the fare changes by $25. The best
fare finder feature will allow you to access the interactive calendar directly from
the email, highlighting the dates the fare is offered.
- "Book A Flight" reservations path: From the homepage, click on "Book A Flight"
and then select the best fare finder search option.
- Travelocity.com homepage: An animated directory on the homepage highlights
the lowest fares for the most popular cities booked.

We're all a little sad to see easySABRE fly off into the sunset, but we are excited
to have you join the over 6 million members of Travelocity.com, which provides
you with reservations capabilities for 95 percent of all airline seats sold, 40,000
hotels and more than 50 car rental companies. You can also access destination
and flight information, purchase tours and cruises, view maps, research bed and
breakfasts, look at seat maps, check the weather and be paged when your flight is
late. And be assured that the same folks who programmed easySABRE will be
working hard to continue to lead the travel industry in automation tools. We look
forward to serving your travel needs on Travelocity.com.

Sincerely,

The Travelocity.com Team - Your Online Travel Expert


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