Sabre accelerates flight search with cache-powered Intelligent Shopping

It promises to deliver results in under 500 milliseconds with 95% accuracy compared to live data

The company has launched Sabre Mosaic, an AI-powered flight shopping tool that unifies EDIFACT, NDC and low-cost carriers. It promises to deliver results in under 500 milliseconds with 95% accuracy compared to live data.

Make caching your ally! Sabre has unveiled a new capability within its Sabre Mosaic platform that promises to accelerate and improve the reliability of flight searches. The solution unifies traditional sources (EDIFACT, NDC and low-cost carriers) and private agency content, leveraging a predictive cache to present offers that can actually be booked. According to Sabre, initial deployments have shown a decrease of up to 28% in the look-to-book ratio, 95% alignment with live data and responses delivered in under 500 milliseconds for traditional flight content.

This new component relies on APIs designed to work with agentic AI and Sabre IQ, which dynamically arbitrates between live queries and the return of a validated result from the cache. Continuous offer validation minimises discrepancies between the displayed price and the final price. Standardising the results structure simplifies sorting, ranking and personalisation for developers. It maintains stable performance when supplier response times fluctuate and can adapt its behaviour to ensure consistent performance, even during peak periods, operational irregularities or massive promotions (e.g. serving an offer from the cache or reducing search depth).

Intelligent decision-making with continuous validation

This innovation enables Sabre to meet the high expectations of airlines regarding 'look-to-book' speeds, as well as those of sales agents who can benefit from a unified experience that aggregates EDIFACT, NDC, low-cost and private content within a single technical framework.

As agencies grapple with fragmented air content and rising traffic costs, our goal is to deliver bookable offers at scale," explains Garry Wiseman, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Sabre. "Cache-powered Intelligent Shopping pairs smart AI decisioning with continuous offer validation so agencies can reduce look‑to‑book ratios, protect against airline penalties, and convert more shoppers without hand‑tuning rules or stitching together multiple systems.

Sabre promises travel industry players a twofold benefit: a smoother end-user experience and improved infrastructure cost predictability.