Challenging the current decline in the UK's travel and dotcom industries, Cheapflights.com has relaunched its travel website following a remarkable growth in site traffic in the year to date. The improved site offers a fuller range of travel products in a faster and easier to use format which brings all the best travel deals together in one place.
The year 2001 saw Cheapflights.com's unique users up by 44 per cent against 2000 (source: UK Doubleclick) despite the impact of 11 September. A total of over 11 million people (Source: Doubleclick) have visited the site since its launch in 1996, making it one of the most successful British travel websites.
Cheapflights remains the only place where you can compare so many flight deals, now from over 280 companies, including low cost airlines, charter flights, World Offers, business & 1st Class deals and much more… The Cheapflights.com redesign keeps deal hunting simple but now you can also search and compare deals for holiday packages, shortbreaks and ski holidays.
In a highly competitive market, dominated by public companies and international corporations, www.cheapflights.com was founded, developed and continues to be headquartered in the UK.
Says David Soskin, chief executive officer, www.cheapflights.com, "It is really encouraging, and a welcome relief, to see a British internet company go from strength to strength in this time of uncertainty in the travel and dotcom industries. As both sectors face a year of intense market conditions, www.cheapflights.com has emerged as a market leader. We are confident the site redesign offers an improved service to both viewers and our travel partners. "
Bucking the usual trend, www.cheapflights.com is fighting the big brand names and big budgets with little marketing spend. In profit since its early days, it is independently-owned, with the site redesign and ongoing growth funded entirely out of its income.
Established for five years, www.cheapflights.com's success has been to combine the best of the old and new economies to help viewers find the very best travel deals, featuring "bricks and mortar" agencies alongside web-based operations and an online booking engine (in partnership with TravelSelect)
Editor's Notes: cheapflights.com which was founded in 1996, is the most comprehensive online resource for researching the full range of travel products. Its many destination pages also enable independent travellers to research and prepare every aspect of their trip.
cheapflights.com is not an agent, it is a resource for visitors to find the best bargains in air-tickets or holidays. It displays the prices for a wide variety of agents and directs viewers to contact agents directly.
