Bezurk.com Signs Marketing Agreement with Qatar Airways
Singapore, 11th June, 2007 - Bezurk.com, the Asia Pacific travel search engine announced a marketing partnership with Qatar Airways, a leading global airline now flying to more than 75 destinations worldwide.
Under the agreement, Qatar Airways will promote its fares on Bezurk.com’s flights search engine and deals channel, and then direct consumers to book flights on www.qatarairways.com. Bezurk will access and display real-time Qatar Airways fares and availability throughout its network of Bezurk and partner branded websites. Consumers selecting a Qatar Airways’ fare will be deep-linked into the Qatar Airways’ website, allowing the airline to maximise sales through its recently enhanced online booking engine.
“The strategic initiative will drive more bookings through Qatar Airways’ online distribution channel” said Peter Pohlschmidt, Manager E-commerce Qatar Airways.The partnership with Bezurk will allow the national carrier of the State of Qatar to very effectively market their fares to consumers, extending the Five-Star airline’s brand exposure and awareness of their online booking capabilities.
“Bezurk offers a fantastic marketing platform for airlines to reach out to consumers across the Asia Pacific region and to drive direct bookings to their website,” said Martin Symes, Bezurk’s CEO. “We are very excited to have Qatar Airways on board and being a key part of their online growth strategy.”
About Bezurk (www.bezurk.com)
Bezurk.com is a comparison-shopping web site that helps travelers from the Asia-Pacific region search for flights, hotels, deals & activities across a multitude of travel websites. Bezurk searches suppliers like the airlines and hotel chains directly but also includes hotel aggregators and online travel agents. Searching is done in real-time so that results show only the latest pricing and availability. Bezurk links travelers directly through to partner websites to book. Bezurk is headquartered in Singapore and was founded in 2005 by former executives from Intercontinental Hotels Group, Priceline, Yahoo! and ZUJI. For more information, please visit www.bezurk.com.
About Qatar Airways (www.qatarairways.com)
Qatar Airways is one of the fastest growing airlines in the world operating a fleet of 57 all-Airbus aircraft to 75 destinations across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Indian subcontinent and the Far East.
Ranked Five Star for service and excellence by Skytrax � the independent aviation industry monitoring agency - Qatar Airways has also been adjudged by the same organisation as having the best cabin crew in the Middle East for the fourth year running in 2006.
Qatar Airways plans to more than double the size of its fleet by 2015 with plans to acquire 80 Airbus A350s and 22 Boeing 777s, for deliveries of the latter beginning in November 2007.
From its hub in Doha, capital of the State of Qatar, the airline has plans to expand its fleet, frequency and number of destinations during the rest of 2007. With flights already launched this year to Dar es Salaam, Lagos, Chennai, Bali and Ho Chi Minh City, Qatar Airways is planning to start direct scheduled flights to the United States for the first time this summer. Flights to New York will begin on June 26, followed by Washington DC on July 19, together with services to Geneva on June 26. And on November 30, the airline launches non-stop flights to Stockholm.
Bezurk.com PR Contact
Steven Gong
Bezurk Pte Ltd
+65 6438 8242
steven@bezurk.com
Qatar Airways PR Contact
Peter Pohlschmidt
Qatar Airways
Tel (+974) 4496281
ppohlschmidt@qatarairways.com.qa
