Released on: May 19, 2008, 4:13 am

Press Release Author: Nay Phu Tran

Industry: Small Business

Press Release Summary: Direct Flights Marketing Director Grant Symonds said the
rapidly growing company was determined to make travel easier and more affordable
than ever before.

Press Release Body: Special Offers:
All Online Customers Earn a Prepaid bopo Visa Card
5 Nights in Phuket with Flights from Only $1110.

Online discount travel agent, Direct Flights International, is offering a prepaid
Visa card to all online customers as part of its bid to provide more online and
offline ways to pay for travel than any other online booking engine.

Aimed at the 55 per cent of Australians who don't have a credit card and those who
have 'maxed out' their cards, the wide choice of payment options - now numbering
seven - include convenient methods not usually available on travel sites such as
POLi, Western Union Money Transfer and offline systems such as Bpay, Australia Post
Billpay, bank cheque and Direct Deposit, in addition to conventional credit cards.

Based in Australia, Direct Flights - www.directflights.com.au - is the first travel
website to add POLi (Pay OnLine) to its expanding choice of payments. POLi is an
eftpos-like system that allows Australians to buy flights and other packages online
using their bank accounts, thus avoiding credit card surcharges.

Direct Flights Marketing Director Grant Symonds said the rapidly growing company was
determined to make travel easier and more affordable than ever before.

"Most other travel websites offer a choice of credit cards to pay but at Direct
Flights, we believe this is no choice at all," Mr Symonds says.

"In the past, travellers didn't have any other choice of payment method online and
had to incur the surcharges, fees and interest charges that go with credit cards.
And then there are the 55 per cent of Australians who don't have credit cards or any
available credit. Direct Flights offers everyone lots of ways to pay easily and
quickly, including convenient offline methods such as paying for flights at the post
office."

Special Offer - Prepaid Visa Card

Until June 30, every traveller who purchases flights or travel products on the
award-winning directflights.com.au website will earn a Direct Flights bopo prepaid
Visa card which offers the convenience of a normal VISA card but only uses money
loaded onto it. The reloadable cards provide a safe and easy way to make purchases,
do not require bank accounts and are free of interest charges and annual fees.

Hot New Holiday Package to Phuket

Direct Flights has a new five-night holiday package to Phuket in Thailand from $1110
per person ex Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane ($3292 in Business Class), from $860 per
person ex Perth ($2930 in Business Class) and from $1430 ex Adelaide via Melbourne.
Package includes return flights and taxes and five nights' accommodation in a
three-star Phuket resort. Fares are for solo travel or twin-share. Conditions apply.

. Bookings available via www.directflights.com.au or email
bookings@directflights.com.au
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Established in 1991, Direct Flights International is a leading Australian online
travel agent offering a fast and easy-to-use method of booking low-cost flights and
holiday packages in Australia and around the world. Travellers can pair flights with
more than 45,000 hotels, 3000 car rental locations and tours and attractions in more
than 300 destinations across the globe.

Initially a chartering company and airline fare wholesaler, Direct Flights expanded
its services in 2003 as an Australian representative for Western Union Money
Transfer and in 2006 launched its rapidly growing, live travel website.


Media contact for Direct Flights International:
Andrew Mevissen, Peak PR, 0431 883 057 or: amev@bigpond.net.au



Cuscal Limited is the issuer of the bopo card in collaboration with bopo Cards
(Australia) Pty Ltd. bopo has appointed Direct Flights International (DFI) as its
authorised representative no. 267102. Neither bopo or DFI are licensed to provide
financial product advice and you should consider the product disclosure statement
available at www.bopo.com.au before deciding to acquire the bopo card.

Promotion Terms and Conditions can be found at
http://www.directflights.com.au/Bopo/index.html


Web Site: http://www.directflights.com.au

Contact Details: Autor Name : Nay Phu Tran

Email: nay@directflights.com.au

Phone: 612 8222 1212

Billing address:
G1, 37 Bligh Street,
Sydney, NSW, 2000. Australia

Category : Travel