Cheapflights Listed for Fifth Consecutive Year in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100

Cheapflights Ltd., a pioneer and international leader in independent flights price comparison is pleased to announce that it has been included in The 2008 Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league table for a fifth consecutive year. The full findings were published in a special eight-page colour broadsheet supplement in the business section of The Sunday Times on September 28 and on www.fasttrack.co.uk. The 2008 Tech Track 100 ranked Britain's fastest-growing private technology companies based on sales growth over the latest three-year period from 2004/5 to 2007/8.

Cheapflights.ca Strengthens Canadian Team

London & Boston, Ma., 10 September, 2008: Cheapflights, the international leader in flights price comparison, with sites in the UK, USA and Canadian site (www.cheapflights.ca) currently in beta today announced the appointment of Lorraine Jackson as Senior Business Development Manager for the Canadian site. Based in Toronto, Lorraine will report to Cheapflights' Head of International, Mo Bulbrook. She will take on the responsibility of building a stronger relationship with our advertising partners and bring new travel partners onto the Canadian site.

Jackson has in depth experience in the Canadian travel market place including past positions with American Airlines, Sabre Travel Network and for the last several years at Worldspan (now Travelport Inc) as the Canada Manager & Market Development Strategist for their Travel Distribution Solutions.

Nothing like being there – football and Cheapflights

So you’ve got a big, flat-screen television with wraparound sound and a satellite dish sitting atop your garage, all so you don’t miss your favorite NFL game. Cheapflights understands that you’re a fan, unapologetic and uncompromising. You’re just the kind of person who would give up your favorite easy chair for a 30-yard line seat in the stadium in some faraway place such as Soldier Field, Texas Stadium, the RCA Dome, or even the hallowed “Frozen Tundra” of Green Bay’s Lambeau Field.

The issue is how do you get there?

Cheapflights.com can help. Type in your city of origin, and where you want to go. Cheapflights.com will display all the options – all the rates, all the airlines on all the dates. You’re in control of the deals.

Kids Airport Diversion Guide

Traveling with children doesn't have to be a pain. There are lots of airports out there that cater to families - with playgrounds, museums, and all sorts of interactive exhibits. You just have to know where to find them.

Cheapflights has done that for you - chapter and verse. From an historic aviation museum in San Francisco, to a wonderfully whimsical playground at Boston Logan.

Locations, hours of operation and all the essentials are in our guide. It is, of course, free. To get the Adobe Acrobat PDF download, go to cheapflights.com and sign up for our newsletter.

Happy grandma wins luxurious London trip

Juana BenRahamim is going to see her grandkids courtesy of Vacation Europe and Cheapflights.com.

“My precious two grandchildren live in Europe, and to have the opportunity to go and visit them…is more than a dream,” says Mrs. BenRahamim.

She’s the winner of Cheapflights.com’s London Vacation Prize package, a contest that saw some 42,000 entries for the Grand Prize drawing.

Mrs. BenRahamim’s entry is clearly focused where it should be - on her grandchildren. But it doesn’t hurt that along with the deal comes a trip for two to London on a major international carrier, seven days’ car rental, two nights’ hotel accommodations at a Hilton, a Rough Guides Prize package valued at $50, and - oh yes - $1,000 spending money. That should buy some ice cream for the grandkids.

Cheapflights merchandise on sale now

Read the news, watched the movie, now want to buy the T-shirt?

If your love for all things Cheapflights can't be sated by using our price comparison site, reading the latest Flight News, subscribing to our newsletter or getting the Cheap Flight News RSS feeds, you'll be pleased by the news that you can now buy Cheapflights merchandise.

If you've always wanted to adorn yourself with a neat CF T-shirt (or tank top, tracksuit, dog T-shirt, vest, bib, or apron), your time has come.

Where the hell is Matt? (and Biggles for that matter)

If you love travel then you will enjoy the video that is going virally bonkers on You Tube: Where the hell is Matt?

Matt dances around the world to wonderful music and against spectacular landscapes. If you have not seen it, then it is worth a look. More than 1.4m people (and counting) have seen it so far. It is something you will want to forward to your friends. Matt, many congratulations from all of us at Cheapflights!

As imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery - and because You Tube invites video responses - Cheapflights could not resist creating a version with our very own Biggles the Bear.

Video humor: Cheapflights' best of British event in Boston

In Boston on July 6, Cheapflights.com held an event to celebrate - belatedly - Independence Day, Cheapflights' heritage as a British company and to ponder the reasons why the British may not be so bad after all. In fact, we were looking for reasons not to hate the British.

At the event we had a band playing British music, comedy from Improv Asylum, the Cheapflights team dressed as Redcoats (and looking silly), and a competition to win a vacation to London (which you can still enter, by the way) and a raft of video cameras.

Here are some lighthearted videos from the event giving reasons not to hate the British (warning - they are a bit silly):

Their culture, a video asking Bostonians what they love so much about British culture.

Their food, a video asking New Englanders whether they have tried Spotted Dick and other japes.

Win flights to London with hotel, taxes, and some spending money

Cheapflights.com has launched a competition. The top prize is two round-trip flights to London with two nights’ hotel and car rental – courtesy of Vacation Europe. You will also be armed with Rough Guides London books and maps plus have some spending money coughed up by Cheapflights ourselves. Not bad eh?

For this chance to win a free vacation, you need to sign-up for our travel deals newsletter, be over 18 and be a U.S. resident … just visit our sign-up page to enter your e-mail, name and zip code.

Hurry though, the competition ends on the last day of July. Before signing up, you should also read through the small print which is linked to on the competition page itself (boring but you should know what the terms are to see how great the prize is or avoid any disappointment in case you thought it was the London in Canada).

Redcoats and July 4 fun - video humor and Boston event

It’s that time of year, time to celebrate independence. While Americans may have won their political independence from Great Britain, they are very much addicted to British humor. They love it (witness the lineup on PBS).

To that end, a celebration of British humor courtesy of www.cheapflights.com, the British-owned (see, they still do have a presence in Boston, despite the Battle of Bunker Hill) Web site that’s a leader in airfare price comparison.

The event explores Ten Reasons Not to Hate the British. In addition to live music from the Boston band FastTimes, which will be performing hits (and misses) of British bands from the '70s, '80s, and '90s, there will be a troop of comedians from The Improv Asylum on hand to help put the planet into proper perspective.

All this will unfold on July 6 from noon to 2pm at Downtown Crossing (Summer Street) in Boston.