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Google Executive Joins Cheapflights' Board

Liane Hornsey appointed Non-Executive Director

London & Boston, 5 May 2008: Cheapflights Ltd. ("Cheapflights"), a leading UK and North American internet media travel company, which pioneered online flight price search and comparison in 1996, announces the appointment of Liane Hornsey to the Board as Non-Executive Director with effect from 1st May 2008.

Ms. Hornsey will Chair the Remuneration Committee of the Cheapflights Board. She has 20 years working experience across Sales, Marketing and HR and is currently Google’s Director of People Operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Past experience includes Group HR Director for Lastminute.com and NTL (now Virgin Media) and she has worked in a variety of roles at Bertelsmann Music Group and British Telecom.

Commenting, Cheapflights' CEO, Chris Cuddy said: "Liane's international experience with fast growing online media companies, will be a huge asset as we chart our next period of growth. I look forward to working with her."

John Clare, Non-Executive Chairman added: "I join with Chris Cuddy and the rest of the Board in welcoming Liane to Cheapflights. Her mix of experience in online and media, as well as in Europe, will be invaluable to the Board in the next phase of our planned expansion."

Contact:
Cheapflights Ltd.
John Barrington-Carver MCIPR
Head of Corporate Communications.
Cheapflights Ltd.
Tel. (Direct): +44 (0)207 467 3535
Mob: +44 (0) 7831 655 630


Cheapflights Ltd.: 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 rapidly grown 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 over 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.

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