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Cheapflights Ltd. is a private international online media (dotcom) company based in London and Boston that operates a travel website. As a neutral site Cheapflights does not sell flights but publishes deals online from hundreds of airlines, low cost airlines and travel operators that fly out of the US, the UK and Canada. Each country has a dedicated website to help consumers find flight deals and flying information.

Founded by travel journalist John Hatt, Cheapflights pioneered the travel Search Engine (TSE) concept in 1996. The original Flight Search Engine, designed in 1990, for Thomson Holidays, used Viewdata Technology combined with Multiple computers to Scan (poll) Airlines Availability. Originally licenced in 1990 to Thomson Holidays, then a number of UK Travel Agencies (Flightline in 1991, AirFlights in 1995) The Creator of the worlds first scanning system has evolved and has, since 1997 been scanning Web airlines, and can be seen at: http://www.TheFlightPortal.com 

 Following a management buy-in in early 2000 by entrepreneurs David Soskin and  Hugo Burge , Cheapflights introduced the pay-per-click (PPC)  online advertising remuneration model, the first vertical search travel price comparison site to do so.  The then pioneering concept provides airlines and other travel operators with free listings for their flights deals.  Advertisers such as BA and Expedia then only pay for the high quality leads that click through to their sites or telephone numbers.

Apart from daily publishing over a million flights deals for comparison by consumers each day, Cheapflights also includes additional travel information for consumers and news on low cost and major airlines on its websites through a news blog on each side of the Atlantic. It also has free weekly newsletters for air-travellers in the US and UK, which now have more than 4 million opt-in subscribers. Cheapflights has an investment in dohop.com a global flights schedule and flights connections website which compliments its own online services. This enables travellers to plan precise flight itineraries from anywhere to anywhere in the World.

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