2007
November: Hitwise announces that www.cheapflights.co.uk is a Top 10 Award winner for the past quarter of this year. Between July and September, www.cheapflights.co.uk was ranked No. 8 by visits among all UK websites in the Hitwise Travel - Agencies industry. Cheapflights has been ranked in the top ten in the travel category for the past 21 quarters.
October: Cheapflights is a winner in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2007 programme. This award recognises Cheapflights as one of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
September: For the fourth consecutive year, Cheapflights is included in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 (the top 100 fastest-growing privately owned UK technology companies), unchanged at number 64. It is the fastest growing of the small group of only four companies that have been included four years in a row.
August: www.cheapflights.co.uk is a Hitwise Top 10 Award winner. Between April and June, the website was ranked No. 8 by visits among all United Kingdom websites in the travel agents’ category.
July: Cheapflights wins the 3i Growth Strategy of the Year Award at the S.E. Region National Business Awards sponsored by Orange.
April: Cheapflights is named as one of The Independent’s top 50 travel websites.
www.cheapflights.co.uk is a Hitwise Top 10 Award winner for the quarter ending January-March (2007). Cheapflights has been ranked in the top ten in the travel category for the past 18 quarters.
In its most significant expansion since the launch of its US website in 2003, Cheapflights has unveiled a third international site - in Canada. www.cheapflights.ca will build on the runaway success of www.cheapflights.com and the original price comparison website www.cheapflights.co.uk, established ten years ago. Launch partners for cheapflights.ca already include WestJet, Sears Travel, Flight Network and British Airways as well as the established online travel agents such as Expedia.ca and Travelocity.ca.
Cheapflights is named a finalist in the National Business Awards, South-East Regional Programme (sponsored by Orange) for the following categories: Business Innovation of the Year Award and The 3i Growth Strategy of the Year Award.
March: Cheapflights.co.uk wins the Wildcard Category of the Imperatives Digital Awards. The website was rated for its easy-to-understand travel results, helpful advice and blog site, Cheap Flight News.
Cheapflights UK is included in the Media Momentum UK's Top 50 Fastest Growing Digital Media Companies 2007. This is the third year that Cheapflights UK has been placed in the top 50 and its ranking (34)represents a jump of four places on last year's position (38).
Hitwise, the internet monitoring service, announces that Cheapflights.co.uk is a Top 10 Online Performance Award Winner for 2006. During 2006, Cheapflights ranked No. 7 by visits among all other UK websites in the Hitwise Travel – Agencies category.
February: Cheapflights is again awarded a Hitwise Top Ten Travel award for the October-December 2006. The Hitwise awards recognise the leaders in their industry field by highlighting the most popular sites according to the percentage of user visits a website receives. Cheapflights has been consistently ranked in the top ten in the travel category for the past 17 quarters.
January: ABCe audited UK January traffic number is 3.3 million, a new record for Cheapflights.co.uk
