Skyscanner and HotelsCombined Partnership Takes Off

September 30th, 2009 EDINBURGH - - Former MD of match.com Jason Stockwood Joins Skyscanner Board Former Managing Director of match.com Jason Stockwood has joined travel search site Skyscanner's board as a non-executive director, providing input and insight to the company's development of a global market-leading brand. Stockwood announced his departure from the leading dating site last week and confirmed his intention to concentrate on NXD roles.

September 2nd, 2009 DUBAI - Citibank in partnership with Virgin Megastore invite you to join them on Thursday 3rd September 2009, when they will announce details about their strategic partnership to bring their products into Virgin Megastore and offer value-added discounts, access to exclusive events and many other exciting programs that Virgin Megastore and Citibank will be co-developing in the years to come. The press briefing takes place at Virgin Megastore - Mall of the Emirates at 2:00pm.

August 17th, 2009 EDINBURGH, Scotland - Travel search site Skyscanner today launched a brand new holiday search function (www.skyscanner.net/holidays) which brings together the holiday offerings of over 20 leading suppliers, including Thomas Cook, Airtours, On The Beach, Virgin Holidays and Monster Travel. From today users can now search from 35 million holidays worldwide on the Skyscanner site.

June 8th, 2009 EDINBURGH - Visitor Traffic on Skyscanner up 85% Cheap flight site Skyscanner (www.Skyscanner.net) saw an unprecedented spike in user traffic last month (May 09), reflecting a surge of late bookings which has led to record visitor numbers. Typically Skyscanner experiences its highest levels of user traffic at the start of the year, with the majority of people booking their summer holidays during January and February.

May 20th, 2009 SYDNEY - So you think you've found a "cheap" online hotel deal. Then came the hitch of booking fees, taxes and other sneaky fees.

May 10th, 2009 EDINBURGH - Leading cheap flight site, Skyscanner (www.Skyscanner.net) reveals this summer's fastest growing destinations for British holidaymakers, and those that are losing out. With anti-eurozone sentiment still strong, Brits are increasingly looking to non-euro destinations this year.

April 26th, 2009 EDINBURGH - Data from leading flight search company Skyscanner (www.Skyscanner.net) shows that travellers planning trips to Mexico have so far been undeterred by the outbreak of swine flu influenza announced by Mexico's Federal Health Ministry on the 22nd April. "Dire predictions have already been made about the impact that this will have on tourism, but the number of Skyscanner users searching for flights to Mexico has remained stable in the days since news emerged of the outbreak," said Skyscanner director and co-founder Barry Smith.

April 22nd, 2009 EDINBURGH - Data from leading flight search engine, Skyscanner (www.Skyscanner.net), shows that London has become the most popular May Day holiday weekend flight destination for Brits this year. Last year, London ranked only 6th most popular, but has now rocketed up the charts displacing Amsterdam as the number one most searched for flight destination on Skyscanner for the early May bank holiday period.

April 1st, 2009 EDINBURGH - Year on Year Growth at end of First Quarter is 87% Leading European flight search engine Skyscanner today announced a 54% year on year increase in site traffic for the first quarter of 2009. More than 50 million flight searches take place each month on the Skyscanner site - 65% of these from outside the UK.

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July 20th, 2009 Harry Potter landmarks: Train stations to castlesEDINBURGH, Scotland — Jump on a broomstick (or a plane) and head to the United Kingdom to visit landmarks associated with Harry Potter. With the latest film installment in the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," now in theaters, the Scotland-based travel-search Web site Skyscanner.com has come up with a list of places that will be sure to enchant Potter fans.

June 24th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Batman, Moron, Brest, Old Crow, Mafia, and Asbestos Hill are some of the names that have been included in a list of the world's funniest, rudest and weirdest airport names. Australian airports Useless Loop, Broken Hill, Woodie Woodie, Wagga Wagga, and Wee Waa have also been enlisted.

June 29th, 2009 Enterprise, Teppco merge, form energy partnershipNEW YORK — Enterprise Products Partners says it will merge with Teppco to form the largest publicly traded energy partnership with an enterprise value of more than $26 billion. Enterprise, which transports natural gas and oil through its pipeline network, said Monday that Teppco unitholders will receive 1.24 Enterprise common units for each Teppco unit, a 14.5 percent premium to the initial offer made by Enterprise March 9.

April 29th, 2009 Detroit Free Press, news partnership get top execsDETROIT — The Detroit Media Partnership and Detroit Free Press have announced their new top executives. Susie Ellwood will become chief executive of the Detroit Media Partnership, which oversees the business operations of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.

August 31st, 2009 APNewsBreak: Gay partnership foes make ballotOLYMPIA, Wash. — A referendum that could overturn Washington state's "everything but marriage" domestic partnership law has qualified for the November ballot.

May 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - As the US pushes Pakistan to shift its focus from India to dismantling Al Qaeda safe havens in its territory, top Obama administration officials have outlined plans to expand an 'increasingly important strategic partnership' with India. With a growing convergence of interests ranging from combating terrorism to getting the global economy back on track, the US will seek an expanded strategic partnership, a top US diplomat who would be Obama's new point man for South and Central Asia told a Senate panel Thursday.

January 26th, 2009 MADRID - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday called on rich countries to place the fight against hunger and poverty among their top priorities, urging them to release more funds to that end despite the economic crisis. 'We must all do more,' Ban said on closing a two-day UN conference on food security in the Spanish capital Madrid.

May 4th, 2009 Challenge to domestic partnership expansion filedOLYMPIA, Wash. — Opponents of an "everything but marriage" bill for same-sex domestic partners have started their bid to overturn the latest effort to expand Washington state's domestic partnership law.

August 19th, 2009 Nevada office to take partnership applicationsCARSON CITY, Nev. — The Nevada secretary of state's office will take applications starting next week from couples who wish to register as domestic partners.

July 3rd, 2009 TOKYO - India and Japan on Friday agreed to cooperate on pressing global issues of climate change, disarmament and non-proliferation while moving ahead in negotiations to stitch a comprehensive economic partnership pact. External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, who is in Tokyo on a four-day visit, held wide-ranging discussions with the Japanese side on the entire gamut of bilateral relations during the third strategic dialogue he co-chaired with his counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone.