Sabre Airline Solutions has restructured its business in Asia-Pacific into three separate regions – South Asia, North Asia and South-east Asia; the Pacific and Japan; as well as mainland China.
With this change, Axel Bench has been appointed regional director – Asia of Sabre Airline Solutions, overseeing South Asia, North Asia and South-east Asia. Scott Barratt will oversee the Pacific and Japan region while Peter Wu will lead mainland China.
Axel Bench (left); Clayton Grant
Bench rejoins Sabre after having spent two years with Sabre Airlines Solutions (2005-2007) as account director for the Pacific region in addition to having sales responsibilities in Asia for some Sabre Airline Solutions products.
He brings with him over 25 years of experience in senior sales and account management roles spanning positions in Harris Aviation Solutions Group, Thales, ERA and Lufthansa Systems with a specific focus on Asia-Pacific.
Meanwhile, Clayton Grant has been named senior account director for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. Grant is an experienced account director who has been with Sabre for four and a half years, and plays a key role in with several strategic clients such as Virgin Australia.
In his 12 years at Virgin Australia, he started at the reservations department before moving to commercial and revenue management positions and eventually became manager of revenue management development.
Guests were entertained by the Mandarin version of When You Wish Upon a Star, as a montage of photos and videos highlighting events of the resort’s first year were projected on the façade of the castle, along with actual guest videos and images of magical memories from their visits.
Rammang-Rammang village along karst mountain range, South Sulawesi
Fishermen at the sunset near Galle, Sri Lanka 
In addition, travel trade members can also enjoy 50 per cent off Emperor Cruises Nha Trang based on contracted rates.
