Skyscanner Launches New Holiday Search Function

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.

July 6th, 2009 SYDNEY - Travel search site Skyscanner has launched new hotel search functionality at www.skyscanner.net/hotels. Powered by HotelsCombined, the hotel search function allows Skyscanner users to search over 200,000 hotels across 195 countries, comparing prices from the biggest suppliers in the business such as Holiday Inn, Hilton, Booking.com, Hotels.com and LateRooms.com.

June 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Concerns about the economy and personal finances have workers rethinking holiday plans, according to a recent survey by CareerBuilder. Thirty-six percent of employed workers in Europe reported they are not planning to take a holiday in 2009, similar to findings reported by U.S.

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.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - In association with travelguru.tv, the Treasure Beach Hotel and the Barbados Tourism Authority, Holiday Extras(R) is giving away a fantastic seven day holiday for two in Barbados. Recognised the world over for its natural beauty, rich culture and the friendliness of its people, Barbados really does deliver the 'Caribbean Dream'.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Holiday Extras, the UK market-leader in travel add-ons, is giving its 3.1 million customers the opportunity to recognise and reward the travel industry's shining stars in what promises to be one of the biggest, and fairest travel awards; the Holiday Extras Customers' Awards 2009. Only Holiday Extras customers travelling via a UK airport will be eligible to cast votes in ten different categories, ranging from best UK airport, best airport hotel and best airline, to the airline with the best cabin crew and those recommended as most family-friendly.

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.

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.

April 22nd, 2009 NYC mayor launches online ad blitzNEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign ads are already all over television and radio, and now they'll be popping up online as well. Bloomberg campaign officials say the ads are designed to be activated by keywords.

July 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States Saturday called North Korea's "possible" missile launches "not helpful" but stopped short of confirming them or calling them a violation of UN sanctions. "We're waiting until we have all the facts about the violation," State Department press officer Karl Duckworth told DPA.

August 14th, 2009 JAMMU - Some residents of this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir will organise a function parallel to the government-held Independence Day celebrations Saturday, to press their demand for a central university in the Jammu region. The parallel function will be held at the Jammu University campus.

August 11th, 2009 Google is testing a new technology that will help you search anything better. Its codenamed Caffeine and has been made public today.

August 24th, 2009 LONDON - Prince William has reportedly taken his girlfriend Kate Middleton to Mustique for her second holiday just days after she returned from a family holiday on the Caribbean island. The couple flew out to the island on Wednesday for a week's break.

September 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The USGS (US Geological Survey) National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) has developed a new search engine that helps users hunt through massive amounts of online information about plants and animals. NBII's revamped search engine offers a variety of new features, including the ability to search multiple databases at the same time and the ability to return results that arrive in "clusters," or automatically generated categories associated with the search topic.

June 24th, 2009 Sea Launch Co. files for Chapter 11 reorganizationLONG BEACH, Calif.

April 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah launched a DVD consisting of works of Shakespeare on the occasion of 445th birth anniversary of William Shakespeare. Noted film critic Bhawana Somaaya also accompanied Shah during the DVD release function here last evening.