On the flip side, we are seeing agencies moving more of their bookings to SABR to consolidate their GDS strategy in response to the pandemic. For example, this quarter, we won incremental North American business from three largest corporate travel agencies of our competitor, These wins include accelerating migration of bookings to Sabre at CTM and travel and transport, as well as a new win with American Travel Associates.
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The latest proof point for this view is the increase in bookings into and out of the United States in response to the announcement made on September 20th that inbound travel restrictions will become more relaxed starting November 8th.
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Specifically, our strategy is to narrow our current business and streamline specific aspects of our product portfolio, direct our investments and team member resources to the activities that generate revenue through retailing, distribution, and fulfillment of personalized travel experiences, execute on specific initiatives that complement and expand travel distribution capabilities, deliver our technology transformation while continuing to accelerate our innovation and migration to the Google Cloud, leverage the leadership team to bring us into the future while attracting, developing, and retaining key talent throughout the organization, and maintain our financial strength and flexibility to support our strategic plans.
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We intend to continue leading the industry in next-generation retailing. While operations software, such as crew scheduling, is important, we don't believe it drives revenue growth or customer loyalty for airlines. The flexible and intelligent nature of our retailing solutions, including our passenger service systems, help airlines offer modern retailing experiences enable personalized travel, and better serve the end consumer.
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We believe their increased participation is helping drive corporate travel for them and corporate booking volumes for us, a win-win result.
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We were notified of Expedia's intent to shift a significant portion of its GDS business in North America away from Sabre, but we expect to retain higher margin bookings that are not related to intra-North American travel.
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