American Airlines, Sabre in Trial Over Data Businesses

American Airlines accused Sabre Holdings Corp., the flight reservations and data business it spun off 12 years ago, of trying to “crush new competition” from its former parent as a trial began.

American, a unit of bankrupt AMR Corp., alleges that a Sabre unit doubled the fees charged the airline for displaying its flight data while other Sabre entities organized a boycott to punish the airline for trying to develop a new data and reservations system. The jury trial started today in Fort Worth, Texas.