Leading Online Travel Agency Wins Three 2010 Travel Weekly Magellan Awards

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- CheapOair is the proud recipient of three of Travel Weekly's esteemed 2010 Magellan Awards. CheapOair was honored with a Gold Award in the Promotional Videos category and Silver Awards in the Booking Interface and TV Campaign categories. The Travel Weekly Magellan Awards recognize the best in the travel industry and salute the outstanding travel professionals behind it.

"We are thrilled to win three prestigious awards from the experts in our industry," says CEO and President of CheapOair, Sam Jain. "CheapOair will continue to expand its marketing capabilities and provide our customers with great travel deals."

CheapOair received the highest award in the Promotional Video category for its YouTube commercial contest. In the winning commercial "Lessons: Learned", a newlywed couple experiences the disastrous consequences of not booking their honeymoon on CheapOair.  

A Silver Award in the Booking Interface category recognizes CheapOair's quick, convenient, and reliable online booking service. Booking requires only three pages of web navigation, the shopping cart is state of the art and the site handles over twenty million hits a day.

CheapOair also received a Silver Award for its first launched television campaign, targeted to the India communities in the United States and Canada. The campaign communicated CheapOair's Golden Guarantees: Low Airfare and Hotel Rates, over 100 Million Flight Options on 400 airlines and 100,000 Hotels Searched, 24/7 Customer Service and Toll Free Number Support.

CheapOair's superior online booking interface and customer-interactive marketing techniques earned the company three of the most distinguished awards in the travel industry. These achievements honor the best in the travel sector and recognize the exceptional service that CheapOair offers. In addition to these accomplishments, CheapOair continues to put forward:  

• Top vacation packages;
• Leading travel deals both domestically and internationally;
• Competitive car rental rates;
• A leading resource in travel news through the CheapOair Blog and social media;
• Resourceful travel guides;
• Helpful, live 24-hour customer support.

For more information, please visit, www.cheapoair.com.

ABOUT CHEAPOAIR:

CheapOair is one of the top 10 largest online travel booking sites and a leading supplier of airfares, hotels, car rentals and vacation packages. Backed by parent company, Travelong, which ranked 13th in the industry in Travel Weekly's esteemed 2010 "Power List," CheapOair offers the best in value with attractive solutions for today's savvy traveler. Their portfolio of products include over 100 million airfare combinations on over 400 airlines, low airfare guarantees, 100,000 negotiated hotel rates and the technological foundation to deliver affordable tickets to every region in the world. For more information, call 866-636-9088 or visit www.cheapoair.com.

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