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News Release from: Cheapflights (with Howzat media and dohop.com)
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 20 February 2008
Cheapflights sites achieve record
January traffic
Internet media travel company Cheapflights has achieved record monthly traffic in the key month of January this year.
In addition, Hitwise UK, the leading online competitive intelligence service, rated Cheapflights.co.uk second only to Google and Google UK in its referrals to upstream websites for the "Travel - Agencies" industry for the month of January, 2008 Cheapflights.co.uk was also the leading UK flight price comparison site referring traffic to upstream websites in Hitwise's 'Aviation' industry sector
This article was originally published on Marketingservicestalk on 25 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Cheapflights' log-file shows that global January traffic Visits, comprising both UK and North American traffic, reached an impressive all-time high of 8.4 million last month.
Cheapflights' main sites' traffic numbers demonstrated excellent year-on-year growth.
In the USA, cheapflights.com was 22 per cent up at 3.5 million visits.
Similarly, the UK site cheapflights.co.uk also continued to show significant growth and recorded its highest ever number of monthly visits at 4.7 million, up 19.5 per cent on the previous January.
Commenting, Chief Executive David Soskin said: "Launched in 1996 at the commercial beginnings of the internet, Cheapflights is the longest established online flight prices search and comparison site on the web.
"As well as being profitable, the site still continues to demonstrate excellent annual traffic growth.
"We are very encouraged that, despite the current economic turmoil, January 2008 has continued to show a significant increase in year-on-year traffic".
Group Managing Director Chris Cuddy added: "We like to attribute our continued success to our providing consumers on both sides of the Atlantic with a user-friendly product allowing them rapidly to search and conclude terrific flight deals for their chosen destinations.
"At the same time, we are also giving our small as well as large-sized travel industry advertisers equal access to literally millions of would-be travellers intending to fly.
"It is a powerful proposition for both travellers and the travel industry".
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