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Discontinued Operations and Dispositions
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]  
Discontinued Operations and Dispositions
Discontinued Operations and Dispositions
Over the past several years, we have disposed of non-core operations of our Travelocity business and, in the first quarter of 2015, we completed the divestiture of our Travelocity business through the sale of Travelocity.com and lastminute.com. Our Travelocity segment has no remaining operations subsequent to these dispositions. The financial results of our Travelocity business are included in net income (loss) from discontinued operations in our consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented. The assets and liabilities of Travelocity.com and lastminute.com that were disposed of are classified as held for sale in our consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2014.
Travelocity.com—On January 23, 2015, we sold Travelocity.com to Expedia Inc. (“Expedia”), pursuant to the terms of an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Travelocity Purchase Agreement”), dated January 23, 2015, by and among Sabre GLBL Inc. and Travelocity.com LP, and Expedia. The signing and closing of the Travelocity Purchase Agreement occurred contemporaneously. Expedia purchased Travelocity.com pursuant to the Travelocity Purchase Agreement for cash consideration of $280 million. The net assets of Travelocity.com disposed of primarily included a trade name with a carrying value of $55 million. We recognized a gain on sale of $143 million, net of tax, in the first quarter of 2015.
lastminute.com—On March 1, 2015, we sold lastminute.com to Bravofly Rumbo Group. The transaction was completed through the transfer of net liabilities as of the date of sale consisting primarily of a working capital deficit of $71 million, partially offset by assets sold including intangible assets of $26 million. We did not receive any cash proceeds or any other significant consideration in the transaction other than payments for specific services being provided to the acquirer under a transition services agreement through the end of 2015. Additionally, at the time of sale, the acquirer entered into a long-term agreement with us to continue to utilize our GDS for bookings which generates incentive consideration paid by us to the acquirer. We recognized a gain on sale of $25 million, net of tax, in the first quarter of 2015.
Travel Partner Network—In February 2014, we completed a sale of assets associated with Travelocity Partner Network (“TPN”), a business-to-business private white label website offering, for $10 million in proceeds. Pursuant to the sale agreement, we were to receive two annual earn-out payments, totaling up to $10 million, if the purchaser exceeded certain revenue thresholds during the calendar years ending December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2015. The revenue threshold was not met for the year ended December 31, 2014 and we do not expect that the revenue threshold for the year ended December 31, 2015 will be met. In connection with the sale, Travelocity entered into a Transition Services Agreement (“TSA”) with the acquirer to provide services to maintain the websites and certain technical and administrative functions for the acquirer until a complete transition occurs or the TSA terminates. Consideration received under both agreements has been allocated to the disposition and the services provided under the TSA; therefore, a significant portion of the upfront proceeds were deferred, based on the fair value of the TSA services, and are being recognized as an offset to operating expense within discontinued operations as the services are provided. In the first quarter of 2014, we recognized a loss on the disposition of $3 million, prior to considering the potential earn-out payments. We also recognized a $3 million receivable for earn-out proceeds during the first quarter of 2014, which offset the loss from disposition and resulted in no net impact to operating income for the disposition. During the third quarter of 2014, we determined that receipt of the earn-out proceeds was no longer probable and therefore fully impaired the receivable.

The following table summarizes the results of our discontinued operations (in thousands):

 
 
Three Months Ended June 30,
 
Six Months Ended June 30,
 
2015
 
2014
 
2015
 
2014
Revenue
$
2,112

 
$
80,349

 
$
23,254

 
$
174,674

Cost of revenue
1,737

 
24,552

 
14,025

 
67,551

Selling, general and administrative
2,267

 
85,812

 
21,508

 
175,434

Operating loss
(1,892
)
 
(30,015
)
 
(12,279
)
 
(68,311
)
Other income (expense):
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Interest expense, net
—

 
(2,197
)
 
—

 
(3,358
)
Gain on sale of businesses
—

 
—

 
263,567

 
—

Other, net
2,974

 
(2,016
)
 
2,499

 
507

Total other income (expense), net
2,974

 
(4,213
)
 
266,066

 
(2,851
)
Income (loss) from discontinuing operations
before income taxes
1,082

 
(34,228
)
 
253,787

 
(71,162
)
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
386

 
(17,578
)
 
94,180

 
(30,456
)
Net income (loss) from discontinued operations
$
696

 
$
(16,650
)
 
$
159,607

 
$
(40,706
)

Divestiture of lastminute.com
U.S. Tax Benefit
We expect to write off the remaining US tax basis in goodwill and intangible assets during the fourth quarter of 2015, the period in which we expect the wind down of lastminute.com activities to be complete. We estimate the U.S. tax benefit will range between approximately $80 million to $95 million. The tax benefit will be included in our results from discontinued operations.
Cumulative Translation Adjustments
Cumulative translation gains or losses of foreign subsidiaries related to divested businesses are reclassified into earnings once the liquidation of the respective foreign subsidiaries is substantially complete. We expect to be substantially complete with the liquidation of our lastminute.com subsidiaries in the second half of 2015. As of June 30, 2015, cumulative translation gains associated with our lastminute.com subsidiaries totaled $21 million.