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Cheapflights Announces New Head of International Development.


LONDON & BOSTON -- Cheapflights Ltd. (www.Cheapflights.com), a leading UK and North American North American

named after North America.


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 travel-search engine publishing one of the largest selections of airfare air·fare  
n.
Fare for travel by aircraft.

Noun 1. airfare - the fare charged for traveling by airplane
fare, transportation - the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
 deals available online from a wide range of flight and travel providers, today announced that Senior Vice President Mo Bulbrook has been promoted to Head of International. Bulbrook will lead the continued development of Cheapflights in Europe and other continents.

A veteran of the travel industry, Mo Bulbrook is also one of Cheapflights' longest standing employees. She takes over the role from Hugo Burge Hugo Burge, a British businessman, has been the CEO of Cheapflights.(Born 6th April 1972)

He was educated at Bedales School, followed by Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he was a College Exhibitioner and graduated with a degree in Geography (MA).
 whom she has assisted in the successful launch of both of Cheapflights' North American sites, namely the US site www.cheapflights.com in 2003 and the soft launch of the Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma.  site, www.cheapflights.ca, in April 2007.

"Mo Bulbrook has been with Cheapflights for seven years, was one of the first dozen people to join Cheapflights, and has worked across different aspects of the business," said Chris Cuddy cud·dy 1  
n. pl. cud·dies
1. Nautical A small cabin or the cook's galley on a ship.

2. A small room, cupboard, or closet.



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, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Cheapflights. "She began focusing on UK business development before launching the US with Hugo. On her return to the UK as Interim General Manager UK she helped lead a major increase in our business and, having launched our new Canadian New Canadian
Noun

Canad a recent immigrant to Canada
 site last year, she will now lead our planned further international expansion in 2008."

Burge will continue to focus on his role as Cheapflights Vice-Chairman and will assist Cheapflights in an advisory capacity, particularly around company strategy and international growth.

"Hugo's contributions to Cheapflights to date have been immense," continued Cuddy. "He has helped drive virtually every aspect of the business including signing some of our earliest advertising partners, providing insightful guidance to the product, and launching the US office. Along the way, Hugo has always pushed our team to be creative and devise better ways to serve our customers."

"Mo brought many years of travel experience to Cheapflights and our then very small team when she joined," said Burge. "Since then she has had a central role in helping drive our growth and financial success and is uniquely qualified to take over as Head of International. It has been a huge and adventurous ad·ven·tur·ous  
adj.
1. Inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises.

2. Hazardous; risky.



ad·ven
 journey to date and I look forward to supporting her in her well deserved new role."

About Cheapflights Ltd.

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 See dot-com.  to introduce pay-per-click in 2000, which helped to transform online advertising. Cheapflights publish flight deals from airlines, budget airlines, online travel agents and the long tail of other specialist flight deal providers. Cheapflights therefore provide consumers with rapid, easy to use comparisons of about 1 million flight deals daily 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 Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point
terminus a quo

commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the
 for finding travel deals and up-to-date travel industry information on both sides of the Atlantic.
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