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- Airlines will always try to sit children with their parents (subject to check-in)
- Some airlines will allow travel for unaccompanied minors. Please email us to check.
- The fare is based on the child's age on the date of travel.
- More detailed information can be found here Traveling with children
- Most airlines will let infants travel with their parent(s) for free. However some airlines will charge up to 10% of the adult ticket price. Click on 'Price Breakdown' to find out more.
- If you are pregnant, but due before the flight departure date, please contact us once your baby is born and has a name. We can then add him/her to your ticket.
- Infants will not be given a seat. The airlines expect parents to travel with them on their lap.
- Airlines regard infants as being under 24 months old.
- The fare is based on the child's age on the date of travel.
- More detailed information can be found here Traveling with children
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WHY DON'T YOU COME
AND JOIN ALTERNATIVE AIRLINES?
Considering a career in the travel industry? Enjoy coming up with new ideas and not afraid to try something new? Alternative Airlines is a young growing company that strives to provide an accessible flight for everyone all over the world. We have a diverse range of ecommerce and digital jobs to offer.
THE ALTERNATIVE AIRLINES TEAM
We pride ourselves on having a flexible, easy-going atmosphere where everyone works hard and feels comfortable at the same time. The Alternative Airlines team are extremely driven and committed to everything they do, from creating new ideas to helping our customers.
THE HEADQUARTERS
We are based in Horley, right next to Gatwick Airport. Our recently renewed office provides an inspiring and peaceful work environment for our growing family. So interested in working with us? We are always looking to expand and offer many ecommerce jobs in the Surrey and West Sussex area.
Our travel jobs areas include Customer Service, Marketing, Web Development and Graphic Design.
Have a look at the latest vacancies available below.
Vacancy Front-end Developer
We are a young and growing company in the fast-moving travel sector. Our team are hard-working, driven and extremely committed to everything they do. At Alternative Airlines, our staff are important and we are committed to their on-going personal development. Alternativeairlines.com is an on-line travel agency offering a wider choice of flights for its customers. By working with more airlines worldwide, including smaller regional carriers, we offer a greater choice of flight options at lower prices. If you would like to join our business, then please keep on reading... We are expanding the team and looking for a talented and creative Front-End Developer to join us!
Job Description
- The role will be focused on the front-end development of Alternative Airlines’ platform and projects will include designing and implementing new features into the flight booking process, creating customer-facing landing pages to promote new features and airlines available through Alternativeairlines.com as well as the management of the existing front-end platform. You will work as a frontend developer in a cross functional team, having ownership and responsibility for the frontend of the Alternative Airlines’ site. The role will have real responsibility and decision-making authority to control and develop the platform of Alternativeairlines.com. You will have a hand’s on approach with a keen eye for bringing designs to life with great interfaces whilst maintaining the structural integrity and standard of the frontend codebase. Through effective design and implementation, the successful candidate will create excellent user experience across all devices including desktop, mobile and tablet.
Essential Skills
- Strong understanding of HTML and CSS.
- Confident working with Javascript and jQuery.
- Basic understanding of PHP and comfortable working on the front-end code within or alongside it.
- An eye for good design and what makes a great user experience.
- Experience building mobile friendly and responsive designs.
- Experience of e-commerce in travel and airline preferred, but not essential.
- Understanding and experience in version control using for example Git and Git workflows
- A passion for excellent user experiences and interactions
What we offer
- Highly competitive salary
- Access to discounted air travel access
- Free parking.
- Pension scheme.
- Free Wi-Fi.
- Summer and Christmas parties.
- Travel Perks.
- Outdoors Chess Set and Table Tennis Table.
- 23 days holiday
- Flexible working
- We have regular socials and try afford our staff the righ work ro life balance in order to make sure they can focus on the things that matter to them
Vacancy Digital Marketing Intern
We are expanding the team and looking for a talented and enthusiastic Digital Marketing Intern to join our team! The role will be focused on increasing brand awareness and online traffic to the Alternative Airlines' site. You will have a hands-on approach with a keen thirst for developing your career and the success of the team.
Digital Marketing Intern Role
- On page, off site and technical optimisation (including blogging)
- Backlink and competitor analysis and keyword research.
- Google Analytics, Google Adwords and Search Console
- Ad campaigns (including running advertising campaigns on Facebook and PPC)
- Promotion and distribution of content
Essential Requirements
- A passion for Digital Marketing.
- An interest in learning and developing knowledge and skills
- Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure
- Passion and knowledge of travel industry
- Results orientated
- Strong inter personal skills, good communicator both verbal and written
- Self- starter and ability to work independently
- Creative and willing to generate ideas
- Strong organisational and planning skills
What we offer:
- Full training from industry experts
- Competitive salary
- Modern office
- Free parking
- Pension scheme
- Free Wi-Fi
- We have regular socials and try to afford our staff the right work-life balance to make sure they can focus on the things that matter to them.
Vacancy Back-end Developer
We are expanding the team and looking for someone with a passion for back-end development and making websites and applications that work well across multiple browsers and devices. The role will be focused on the back-end development of Alternative Airlines’ platform and projects. We are enjoying a period of high growth and have clear traffic goals from our current base of c.300,000 monthly users to 500,000 by 2019 and 1 million by 2020. Projects will include developing the platform of Alternative Airlines from an English-only site into a multi-language site attractive to our global customer base and API integrations to broaden the scope of Alternative Airlines offering. The role will have real responsibility and decision-making authority to control and develop the platform of Alternativeairlines.com. There will be an opportunity also to work on front-end projects as well as part of a small, but expanding team.
Person Specification
- Willingness to learn new techniques and skills
- Entrepreneurial
Essential Skills
- To have a good understanding and experience of server side technologies such as PHP, apache, and Linux
- Experience working with MYSQL databases is essential
- Experience working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience with building or consuming web services and APIs
- Understanding and experience using Git and Git workflows
- To be educated to degree level in a software / web development degree or similar is preferred
What we offer
- Highly competitive salary
- Access to discounted air travel access
- Free parking.
- Pension scheme.
- Free Wi-Fi.
- Summer and Christmas parties.
- Travel Perks.
- Outdoors Chess Set and Table Tennis Table.
- 23 days holiday
- Flexible working
- We have regular socials and try afford our staff the righ work ro life balance in order to make sure they can focus on the things that matter to them
Vacancy Digital Designer
Skills Range
- Strong understanding of HTML and CSS.
- An eye for good design and what makes a good user experience.
- Basic understanding of PHP and comfortable working on the front-end code within or alongside it.
- Confident working with Javascript and jQuery.
- Experience building mobile friendly and responsive designs.
- Experience of e-commerce in travel and airline preferred, but not essential.
- Understanding and experience in version control using for example Git and Git workflows.
- A passion for excellent user experiences and interactions.
- Familiarity with pre processing tools, such a Sass/Less, Grunt is preferable, but not essential.
- You have experience of using Adobe creative suite and/or Sketch.
- You are willing and able to communicate your ideas with the team as well as take direction and feedback.
Attributes
- Graduate.
- Willingness to learn new techniques and skills.
- Entrepreneurial.
What we expect from you
- You will be passionate about digital design, and focused on the user, and their experience. You'll feel comfortable working across the whole product lifecycle, from conception through to completion.
- You will have proven design skills and preferably you have prior experience of working in a commercial setting (preferably within e-commerce). You will have an ability to translate business ideas into elegant, user friendly design solutions.
Employee benefits
- Highly competitive salary.
- Access to discounted air travel.
- Opportunity to attend airline hosted events.
- 23 days holiday.
- Flexible working.
- We have regular socials and try to afford our staff the right work-life balance to make sure they can focus on the things that matter to them.
