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Aerlingus.com celebrates 10 millionth booking

10th December 2007 Print
Aer Lingus is this week celebrating a milestone 10 million bookings through Aerlingus.com since the website started in 2001. In its first year of operation, web bookings represented a single figure percentage of all bookings whereas today that number is 72%, reflecting the significant changes in passenger preferences over the past six years.

Commenting, Aer Lingus Chief Executive Dermot Mannion said, "Aer Lingus has grown significantly over the past six years and innovations such as web bookings have enabled us to offer customers easier access to Aer Lingus flights as well as contributing to lower costs and therefore lower fares. Just as our route network has grown from 46 routes in 2001 to 95 routes in 2007, so to have the number of bookings on aerlingus.com as we continue to offer our customers greater choice of destinations to Europe and, in the advent of Open Skies, to the USA.

“We are very proud of our web service which was developed and is managed in-house and today's milestone announcement is further testament to its ongoing success."

The lucky 10 millionth customer, Ms Fiona McLoughlin from Limerick, who made the timely booking from Cork to Berlin on Saturday night last will receive two complimentary tickets to travel to her choice of any one of Aer Lingus' 69 destinations.