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Travelocity.com  Partners with  www.go.com
 
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 16, 1999 -  Travelocity.com, the online travel expert, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Infoseek Corporation (Nasdaq: SEEK), home of GO Network™ (www.go.com).This agreement makes Travelocity.com the preferred online travel provider of air, car and hotel booking capabilities for GO Network, a global media network that features superior search and directory tools and integrates the highest quality content and services.

“We’re pleased to provide GO Network users with access to Travelocity.com booking features and all the tools they need to purchase travel online,” said Terrell B. Jones, president of Travelocity.com. “Travelocity.com will provide the ultimate travel tools and deliver the best in quality and service to GO Network users.” “This alliance with Travelocity.com helps GO Network extend our brand, content, and travel services to millions of online users around the world,” said Harry Motro, president and CEO of Infoseek. “By establishing this deep partnership with Travelocity.com, GO Network will now provide users with the most trusted information and complete travel resources on the Web.”

Media Metrix, a leader in Internet and digital media measurement, recently ranked the GO Network number five among the Top 50 Digital Media Web Properties, based on unduplicated audience reach, or “unique visitors”.  Media Metrix defines “Digital Media Web Properties” as the largest single brands as well as consolidations of multiple domains that fall under one brand or common ownership.

Travelocity.com is owned and operated by Sabre Inc. (NYSE:TSG). Travelocity.com provides reservations capabilities for 95 percent of all airline seats sold, more than 42,000 hotels and more than 50 car rental companies.  This reservations capability is paired with access to a vast database of destination and interest information. To date, Sabre Inc. has sold more than 3 million airline tickets online and since its launch in March of 1996, Travelocity.com has registered more than 7 million members and logs more than 105 million page views per month.  Sabre Inc. is a world leader in the electronic distribution of travel and is a leading provider of information technology solutions for the travel and transportation industries, including customized software development and software products, transaction processing, consulting and total information technology outsourcing.

About Infoseek
Infoseek Corporation is the home of GO Network, a premier global media network that offers consumers solutions for everyday life by combining integrated Internet services with leading consumer brands.  Now one of the top five sites on the Internet, GO Network was launched in January 1999 by Infoseek, in partnership with The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), and is the online home of leading world brands such as ABCNEWS.com for news, ESPN.com for sports, Disney.com and Family.com for kids and family, Infoseek for search, and Disney.com and ABC.com for entertainment.

In addition, Infoseek licenses its Ultraseek Server search and navigation software to companies for their own intranet, extranet and Internet sites. Infoseek is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. 

Sabre Inc. and the Sabre Inc. logo are registered trademarks of an affiliate of Sabre Inc. This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Infoseek, GO Network and Travelocity.com involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those set forth in such statements as a result of a number of factors, including, but not limited to the Company’s ability to successfully and timely launch a fully integrated Travelocity.com online solution on GO Network, consumer acceptance and use of such electronic invitation solution and the increasingly competitive nature of the Internet market.  Infoseek, Ultraseek and the Infoseek logo shown are trademarks of Infoseek Corporation, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Contact:
Judy Haveson
judy@vollmerpr.com
Vollmer Public Relations, 
713-546-2230, 
for Sabre, Inc.; 
http://www.sabre.com
Shelly Greenhalgh 
of Infoseek Corporation,
408-543-6910
shelly.greenhalgh@infoseek.com
http://www.go.com
 
Also See: The SABRE Group Records an Online Travel Sales Week Volume of $9 Million; $285 Million in Online Travel Sales for 1998 / Jan 1999 
Online Travel Bookings Growth Continues, Infringing Upon the Role of Traditional Travel Agents / July 1999 

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