Cheapflights has launched Cheapflights Chat, an interactive bot utilising Facebook’s new Chat SDK. The proprietary technology will enable the social network’s massive global community to use its popular Messenger platform to search for flights and other travel-related information, before linking them to the Cheapflights website where they can continue to search or move off on to the next stage of the booking process.

Leading travel search platform, Cheapflights, has appointed Samantha Otter as global marketing director. She will report to managing director Andrew Shelton, with responsibility for driving awareness for the brand and supporting its global growth plans. Otter joined Cheapflights as global head of marketing in March 2015.

cheapflights, the travel comparison site network and online flight advisor owned by Momondo Group, has further strengthened its marketing and customer proposition with the appointment of Sam Otter to the newly-created role of global head of customer and marketing communications. Most recently Otter spent over three-and-a-half years at Virgin Holidays, latterly as head of marketing, after having joined as head of loyalty and insight.

Cheapflights Media is adopting the name of its Danish travel search site subsidiary, momondo, as the company’s new corporate identity. This decision reflects the company’s long-term strategy to further develop its geographical presence in non-English-speaking markets and to build the momondo brand to help the group expand into future new products.

Reality TV is all the rage at the moment according to UK travel comparison website Cheapflights, interest has climbed to destinations where reality shows have been filmed.

Alan Martin has been named as interim chief financial officer at Cheapflights following the “unexpected and untimely” death last month of its long–serving former chief financial officer Simon Bicket.