[UPDATE, Dec. 16, 2016: Sabre announced that Sean Menke will become president and CEO on Dec. 31. He's been at Sabre since October 2015 as an EVP and as president of Sabre Travel Network, responsible for the the company's global distribution system. He previously was CEO of Frontier Airlines and served in senior positions at Air Canada and Hawaiian Airlines. Non-executive chairman of the board Larry Kellner, a former Continental Airlines' CEO, becomes executive chairman on the same day.]

After Sabre on Monday announced president and CEO Tom Klein's plans to depart . . .

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Jay Campbell

Before starting The Company Dime with David Jonas in 2014, journalist Jay Campbell a decade earlier created travel business newsletter The Beat. In 2006, Jay co-founded Travel Procurement magazine and in 2010 helped integrate them with Business Travel News. He served as BTN's editorial director until 2013. Jay made his travel industry media debut in 1993 at the Air Travel Journal of Boston while earning his undergraduate degree in journalism at Boston University. He would be happy to connect on LinkedIn.