Sabre Corporation, PayPal, and Mindtrip have teamed up to build a new AI-powered travel experience that will change how people find, plan, book, as well as manage their trips.
The partnership combines Mindtrip’s AI platform, PayPal’s payment technology, as well as Sabre’s travel expertise to make booking travel easier. Instead of jumping between different websites and apps, travelers will be able to use an AI travel assistant on the Mindtrip platform to handle everything from start to finish. This service is set to launch in the second quarter of 2026.
Here’s how it works:
- Travelers can describe their trip details, like where they want to go, when, how much they want to spend, as well as any other preferences in simple language.
- The AI will give them personalized flight and hotel suggestions.
- They can ask follow-up questions as well as adjust their preferences easily through conversation.
- They can book their trip and pay within the same platform.
- After booking, they can manage their trip, like altering their itinerary, all in one place.
Behind the scenes, Sabre’s travel platform manages real-time pricing, availability, as well as bookings, while PayPal’s digital wallet makes payments secure and simple.
Mindtrip’s AI system will act as a guide throughout the entire travel management solutions, helping travelers refine their preferences and giving them personalized advice as their journey unfolds. The first version will support flight bookings, with hotels being added later.
Executive Statement
According to Garry Wiseman, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Sabre, they believe consumer behavior will continue to shift towards conversational commerce, and they see their role as helping the travel industry seize this opportunity, because the full potential of agentic AI for travel can only be realized at scale when it’s connected to enterprise-grade technology capable of handling real-world complexity. This partnership brings together a cutting-edge agentic consumer start-up, the world’s biggest digital payments platform, and Sabre’s leading enterprise-grade agentic AI technology to accelerate the future of travel in a way that is practical, scalable, and grounded in real use cases.
