Announcement of some kind of combination between Amadeus Global Travel Distribution, the reservation system developed by the gang of Unisys Corp users among the European airlines, and AMR Corp’s Sabre Travel Information is expected today, and it may lead to Sabre taking a 10% or so stake in Amadeus, and Amadeus switching from the SystemOne Corp software it is currently using, to the Sabre system, and marketing its terminal computers to travel agents under the Sabre-Amadeus name according to the Wall Street Journal; the last move could lead to a legal battle with Continental Holdings Inc’s SystemOne, which has software development and marketing agreements with Amadeus.
