Yes! Lucky winners of a Cheapflights.co.uk promotion bagged totally free flights to Madrid this week (27 June) with Excel Airways.
Excel Airways paid all taxes and charges for the 130 winners who were quick enough to enter a competition posted on the Cheapflights.co.uk home page and sent out to its 1.2 million newsletter subscribers.
Says Liz Faherty of Cheapflights: “Flights don’t come any cheaper than free, and when Excel Airways approached us with this promotion, we were really excited at giving something back to our users. Like us, they recognise the value of offering genuinely fantastic deals and rewarding customer loyalty.”
Whilst free flights don’t appear everyday on the Cheapflights.co.uk home page, the site prides themselves on being able to help their users find the best products at the best prices for their travel needs. “We’re a completely neutral resource for our users; we publish in excess of 1 million flight, holiday and hotel deals everyday across our sites, to just about anywhere in the world” says Liz. “And because we don’t sell anything ourselves, but pass all booking queries directly to the relevant supplier, we don’t get caught up in complicated booking or reservations systems. This means we are able to work with over 700 travel brands who have flights, holidays, hotels or other travel products that we feel offer great value to our users.”
And it doesn’t stop there, because of their neutrality; Cheapflights.co.uk and sister websites Cheapholidaydeals.co.uk and Cheapaccommodation.com are able to regularly feature competitions and exclusive offers from a large number of the travel companies they work with. “We do have a number of fantastic competitions, particularly in our Travel Deals Alert newsletter that goes out weekly to subscribers. Companies like Excel Airways choose to run brilliant freebies through us because they know it’ll get a fantastic response. The people who use our sites are travel savvy and know how to snap up a good deal as soon as they see it.”
OctopusTravel, who work with sister site Cheapaccommodation.com, offered all Cheapflights.co.uk winners £10 discount on accommodation booked through OctopusTravel.com.
The winners flew out to Madrid from Gatwick on 27 June 2005 and returned on 29 June 2005. If you missed out this time, but want to make sure you’re the first to hear of any future promotions, sign up to the Cheapflights Travel Deals Alert newsletter now.
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Cheapflights is the world’s largest independent online travel price comparison service, operating Cheapflights.co.uk, Cheapholidaydeals.co.uk, Cheapaccommodation.com, and Cheapflights.com in the USA.
The company invented travel price search-and-compare functionality on the internet in 1996 and introduced pay per click (PPC) in 2000. Today, Cheapflights’ users search through over one million travel bargains from over 700 ABTA and ATOL bonded travel companies, airlines and accommodation providers in the UK alone. Another 200 plus clients advertise on our US and global accommodation sites. Users can click through to their chosen supplier to book or often to telephone lines dedicated to their chosen deal.
Leading online measurement company Hitwise describes Cheapflights.co.uk as ‘the UK’s favourite travel price comparison site’; and the Company’s unique user numbers, including the UK, support this, reaching 4,000,000 unique users in January 2005 (source: ABCe and Company Logfiles). Additionally Cheapflights will drive over £800 million of travel product sales in the UK in 2005 .
ABOUT CHEAPFLIGHTS.CO.UK
Cheapflights.co.uk is the leading flights price comparison website (PCW). Founded in 1996, Cheapflights.co.uk is one of the top three most visited UK travel sites, and is the only price comparison site in the UK Hitwise Top 10 travel rankings.
ABOUT CHEAPACCOMMODATION.COM
CheapAccommodation.com is the UK’s leading accommodation price comparison website (PCW). The site offers over 50,000 deals from hotel chains and travel agents, covering 1,250 worldwide destinations.
ABOUT CHEAPHOLIDAYDEALS.CO.UK
Cheapholidaydeals.co.uk is the UK’s leading holiday price comparison website (PCW). The site offers access to over 300,000 package holidays from companies including Thomson Holidays, First Choice Holidays, Thomascook.com and Virgin Holidays. Users can also compare prices from over 30,000 short break bargains.
