another brush with success came in 1959 with the reservec on-line reservation system developed for trans-canada air lines. this product suffered from stiff competition from ibm's sabre system in the us, but there was nothing similar in the uk, whose own airlines were in the market for such a system. apparently due largely to not invented here problems, ferranti in the uk decided to develop an entirely new system to fill this need, instead of using the canadian version.