A CANADIAN court has dismissed Sabre’s claims that the IATA PaxIS products violated confidentiality obligations.
PaxIS is an airline industry business intelligence product based partly on ticketing data that IATA collects and processes through its Billing and Settlements Plan (BSP). The data is transmitted to IATA by GDSs.
In 2006, Sabre filed a lawsuit against IATA, alleging breach of confidence due to IATA’s use of Sabre’s ticketing data in IATA’s PaxIS products.
On January 11, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Canada) found that IATA acted lawfully in developing the PaxIS products based on data from its BSPs. It rejected Sabre’s claims that IATA was not allowed to use BSP data for “commercial” products, and determined that Sabre could not claim confidential rights to airline ticketing data.
