Milestones

2006

December: Cheapflights is awarded Best Travel Website at the Metrixlab 2006 Website of the Year Awards. More than 350,000 votes were cast to select the websites for each category. The title Best Website is provided to the site with the highest average score on content, navigation and design.

November: Cheapflights wins Best Trade Website award at the British Travel Awards 2006.

October: Cheapflights is Number 27 in the Revolution Magazine's Top 50 UK digital brands and a top ten site for value (the highest travel site in that category).

September: Cheapflights is one of four companies shortlisted for the TTG Innovation Company Award.

Cheapflights included for the third year running in the Sunday Times Microsoft Techtrack, the top 100 fastest growing privately-owned UK technology companies. Its ranking improved to Number 64, 15 places up year on year.

John Hatt, founder of Cheapflights, is named by The Times newspaper as one of the top "50 people you need to know in travel - the ones that every traveller should know about".

August: Cheapflights is included in a Guardian list of the top 30 travel websites that "changed our world".

June: Cheapflights' news site, Cheap Flight News is included in The Times list of top 108 travel sites in the UK just seven months after it is launched.

May: Cheapflights becomes a member of CASMA (Computerised Airline Sales & Marketing Association).

Cheapflights.co.uk selected for inclusion by the authors of the Oxford University Press geography course book for the GCSE qualification in British schools.

April: Cheapflights UK is included in the Media Momentum UK's Top 50 Most Dynamic Media Companies 2006 - the second year in a row it has been in the top 50.

Hitwise, the internet monitoring service once again ranks Cheapflights.co.uk as a top 10 website in its relevant sector which comprises some 2,000 websites. For the last 15 quarters monitored by Hitwise, Cheapflights.co.uk has ranked in the top 10, one of only four travel websites to achieve this success.

March: To cope with its rapid expansion in North America, Cheapflights USA occupies new corporate offices in Boston's historic School Street.

February: Cheapflights announces record number of monthly unique users to its websites - 5.25 million.

January: Cheapflights.co.uk wins the best of the net .net award Best Website in the Travel category in a poll of 100,000 internet users.

Webuser Magazine selects Cheapflights as one of its "365 brilliant websites, online treats for every day of the New Year".

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