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Cheapflights claims record January
Price comparison site Cheapflights has claimed record traffic across the UK and North America in January.
The UK site www.cheapflights.co.uk recorded its highest ever number of monthly visits at 4.7 million, up 19.5% on the previous January.
In the US, www.cheapflights.com was 22% up at 3.5 million visits.
Online competitive intelligence service Hitwise UK also rated Cheapflights.co.uk second only to Google and Google UK in its referrals to upstream websites for the ‘Travel – Agencies’ sector in January.
Cheapflights.co.uk was also the leading UK flight price comparison site referring traffic to upstream websites in Hitwise’s ‘Aviation’ industry sector.
Chief executive David Soskin said: “We are very encouraged that, despite the current economic turmoil, January 2008 has continued to show a significant increase in year-on-year traffic.”
by Phil Davies
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