Cheapflights shortlisted in Travolution Awards 2008

Cheapflights Ltd. ("Cheapflights" or "the Company"), a leading UK and North American internet media travel company, which pioneered online flight price search and comparison in 1996, is pleased to announce that it has been shortlisted in the prestigious Travolution Magazine 2008 Awards in the Best Meta Search Site/Price Comparison Site category.  The Travolution Awards recognise the best operators, agents, portals, digital marketers and suppliers in the travel and industry, and this year enjoyed a record number of award entries.  Winners will be announced in London on April 24.

Cheapflights, from its inception, has always been an innovator. It was the first dotcom to introduce the travel price search and comparison model helping to broaden the travel industry’s marketing reach by allowing them to publish their current deals on an independent site with growing traffic. In 2000, Cheapflights was subsequently the first UK dotcom to introduce the now universal pay-per-click advertising model. By allowing advertisers to publish their deals free and paying only for high quality leads, Cheapflights enabled the “long-tail” of smaller travel operators to access the growing number of consumers using the internet to plan and purchase flight and travel deals. Cheapflights has been consistently profitable since its launch and is one of the very few UK dotcoms to successfully launch in the US (May 2003) and more recently in Canada (April 2007).

Commenting, Chris Cuddy, Cheapflights CEO said: “Cheapflights is delighted to be included in this year’s shortlist in our category. We strive to maintain the best content and user experience on our sites and to provide relevant tools for our advertisers to generate the high quality and high conversion leads they require. Therefore to be included in this year’s Travolution Awards shortlist is not only very gratifying but also validation for the ongoing efforts of the team at Cheapflights.”

Notes to Editors.

CheapflightsLtd.: www.cheapflights.co.uk was launched in 1996. It pioneered the concept of online flight price search and comparison and has been consistently profitable since launch. It was the first UK dotcom to introduce pay-per-click in 2000, which helped to transform online advertising. Cheapflights publishes flight deals from airlines, budget airlines, online travel agents and the long tail of other specialist flight deal providers. Cheapflights therefore provides consumers with rapid, easy-to-use comparisons of approximately one million flight deals each day from the broadest online selection of travel operators. The site is valued by travel industry advertisers as a neutral, high-traffic source of quality high-conversion consumer leads. It launched its US site www.cheapflights.com in May 2003, which has grown rapidly and which now provides half of Cheapflights' millions of monthly visits by consumers. Its Canadian site www.cheapflights.ca, which was soft launched in April 2007, is already enjoying traffic of more than 180,000 monthly visits. Cheapflights' status as an independent online travel price search and comparison and travel news site makes it a natural starting point for finding travel deals and up-to-date travel industry information on both sides of the Atlantic.