AMR Corp.'s American Airlines settled litigation with Sabre Holdings Inc., the flight data and reservation business that American spun off in 2000 and later accused of trying to crush competition from its former parent, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. The companies renewed their current distribution agreement for multiple years, according to a jointly issued statement today. The airline will also receive an unspecified sum of money from Sabre. The settlement comes one week into the Fort Worth, Texas, state court jury trial of a lawsuit in which American claimed Sabre units doubled fees for displaying the airline’s data on its system, suppressed that data and organized a boycott to punish the carrier for trying to develop a new data and reservation system. The agreement also resolves federal claims between the companies.
