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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 e-commerce 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 Head of Finance
Alternative Airlines is a fast growing Online Travel Agent. We have built a strong online presence, www.alternativeairlines.com, with an ultra-quick flight booking capability and an expanding, global customer base of delighted consumers. With a new customer-focused approach to a huge, well-established market for air travel, the organisation has built a reputation for innovation, attention to detail and doing things differently. Alternative Airlines is enjoying an exciting period of high growth as shown by yearly growth rates of 86% from £2.9m in 2016 to £19.1m in 2019 with expected continued growth towards a £100m revenue business.
We are continuing to grow and now need to expand our team to include a committed, collaborative and ambitious Head of Finance. He or she will be welcomed from day one onto our decision-making management team.
This position requires strategic, tactical and professional leadership including the ability to develop a high-performing team, capable of supporting our continued growth with timely and accurate accounts whilst maintaining tight financial controls. The role combines the traditional aspects of a financial controller with an important emphasis on the preparation of management accounts, budgeting, forecasting and cash flow management alongside the opportunities of a high-growth, fast-paced and enjoyable environment. As Head of Finance, you will personally develop the Alternative Airlines’ Finance Team, from its current base of three people, keeping it in step with the significant growth targets. Alternative Airlines operates a complex network of airline and ancillary suppliers and consumer-focused payment systems and this role will be working with and managing the reconciliation processes between external systems and our accounting procedures.
Whilst building strong relationships with an exceptionally talented management team, you will need to have the ambition to maintain the highest of professional standards. This is a long-term career opportunity and an opportunity for you to enter into a fast-paced tech environment, becoming a major part of the decision-making process and contributing to our continued success in this unique, diverse and engaging industry.
Reporting directly to the Managing Director, who will also be responsible for your personal development, your responsibilities will be:
Responsibilities
- Become the finance leader of the organisation
- Helping to produce and improve statutory and management accounts
- Oversee cash flow management and managing accounts payable
- Preparation of budgets and financial plans with cash flow projections
- Formulating financial strategy, tax strategy and risk management strategy
- Leading Alternative Airlines’ discussions with banks, payment partners and suppliers
- Directing audit and compliance activities – reconciling balance sheets and liaising with auditors
- Implementing and maintaining performance measures and internal controls
- Present financial reports to the Alternative Airlines Management Team
- Being responsible for payroll, VAT and HMRC processes
- Staying up date with technological advances and accounting software to be used for financial purposes
Essential Skills
- Experience in travel or a high-volume, low-margin business preferable, but not essential
- Strong technical accounting knowledge including Sage experience
- Excel and modelling
- Creating statutory accounts
- A passion for technology and the impact on processes and systems
- Fully qualified accounting (ACA, ACCA and CIMA)
- Experience running annual audit
- Ability to develop, inspire and engage with colleagues and finance team members
What we offer
- Highly competitive salary
- Access to discounted air travel
- Flexible working, child-care voucher scheme
- Personal development opportunities
- Summer and Christmas parties
- Opportunity to directly and personally influence the next stage of growth of a young, innovative and fast-growing Online Travel Agency
Vacancy SEO Manager
Alternative Airlines is a fast growing Online Travel Agent. We have built a strong online presence, www.alternativeairlines.com, with an ultra-quick flight booking capability and an expanding, global customer base of delighted consumers. With a customer-focused approach to a huge, well-established market for air travel, the organisation has built a reputation for innovation, attention to detail and doing things differently.
Alternative Airlines is enjoying an exciting period of high growth and we’re looking for an ambitious SEO Manager to join and lead our customer acquisition and marketing team.
We need a talented and dynamic individual with experience of SEO tactics, management, implementation and strategy to execute our digital marketing strategy, which is at the core of our success. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and implementing all SEO activities including content strategy, link building and keyword strategy to increase rankings across all major search networks. Our new SEO manager will be passionate about all aspects of SEM and comfortable deep diving into the detail.
We are enjoying a period of high growth and have clear traffic goals from our current base of c.600,000 users to 1 million by 2021 and 2 million by 2022. This will include developing the platform of Alternative Airlines from an English-only site into a multi-language site attractive to our growing global customer base.
Responsibilities
- Conduct on-page and technical SEO analysis to find opportunities for performance improvements
- Document, test, launch, and measure new SEO initiatives
- Develop and implement link building strategy with relevant organisations and sites
- Lead the team to deliver the strategies they propose, encouraging and coaching them along the way
- Identify strategic opportunities and prioritize them against other tactical actions to achieve a balance of short term and long term performance
- Understand and improve our content offering
Essential Skills
- 3 years plus proven commercial SEO experience and results generation
- Strategic approach to effective and proven SEO best practice techniques and problem solving
- Expert knowledge of Google Analytics, Google Search Console and SEO software tools (Ahrefs)
- Ability to manage own workload to ensure that individual, team and company targets are achieved
- A passion for SEO and Digital Marketing is a must!
- An understanding of HTML, CSS and web standards is useful
- Some digital agency experience would be advantageous
What we offer
- Highly competitive salary
- Access to discounted air travel
- Flexible working, child-care voucher scheme
- Personal development opportunities
- Summer and Christmas parties
- Opportunity to directly and personally influence the next stage of growth of a young, innovative and fast-growing Online Travel Agency
Vacancy UX Designer
The UX Designer role will be focused on the front-end of Alternative Airlines’ platform, and projects will include a complete overhaul of the front end of the website. Designing new features for the flight booking process, as well as customer-facing landing pages to promote new features and airlines available through Alternativeairlines.com.
Working collaboratively, and alongside a cross-functional team you will take a user-centred design approach to address complex design problems and work closely with front end devs and a designer.
You’ll devise compelling ideas, ideate possibilities and create concepts at different levels of fidelity. You will have a hands on approach with an analytical mindset, that will really delve into why users on our site do what they do, and how you can make their booking experience better.
Through effective analytical research and prototyping, the successful candidate will help create an excellent user experience across all devices including desktop, mobile and tablet.
Essential Skills
- Minimum of 2 Years previous experience in a UX and UI designer role (on an e-commerce website) is essential (travel related background would be even better!)
- Experience working with design tools such as Sketch, Axure, or Adobe Creative Suite is essential.
- Experience in responsive design across multiple touch points.
- Good communication skills including the ability to deliver presentations using structure and style appropriate to your audience.
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Free parking
- Pension scheme
- Free Wi-Fi
- Summer and Christmas parties
- Travel Perks
- Opportunity to directly and personally influence the next stage of growth of a young, innovative and fast-growing OTA
The Role
- Evaluating the alternativeairlines.com website to understand trends and best practice within the travel industry by identifying issues and opportunities to increase conversion.
- Understand the research objective and what type of research or combination of research approaches you will use.
- Proven track record of delivering solutions that increase conversion.
- Produce wireframes and interactive prototypes to depict proposed functionality to stakeholders, potential users, developers and other audiences.
- A/B testing experience and be able to champion the importance of this function whilst working with the rest of the front end team.
- Knowledge and use of analytics through tools such as Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics.
- Collaborating with development team to ensure your designs are feasible for implementation.
- Work with the design team to monitor brand guidelines and collateral consistency.
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 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. Many of Alternative Airlines' back-end projects include integrating with new payment partners and direct API connections with airlines. 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
- 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 to afford our staff the right work-life balance in order to make sure they can focus on the things that matter to them
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
- These are very exciting times at Alternative Airlines. We are putting together a top notch team of front enders and an exceptional designer to help overhaul the front end of alternativeairlines.com.
- The role will be focused on the front-end development of Alternative Airlines’ platform and projects will include a complete overhaul of the front end of the website. 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.
- Working collaboratively, and alongside a cross-functional team you will take a user-centred development approach to address complex design problems and work closely with other front end devs and a designer.
- You’ll devise compelling ideas, ideate possibilities and create concepts at different levels of fidelity. You will have a hands 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 implementation, the successful candidate will help create an excellent user experience across all devices including desktop, mobile and tablet.
- We don't offshore, and we dont take on contractors. You will be a part of our team, and your input is valued. We'll listen to your ideas, and you'll get the chance get to bring them to life. Have a killer idea on Monday? Great!, lets put it on the site on Tuesday and A/B test it. If our customers love it as much as you do, it stays.
Essential Skills
- You are an expert using Less/Sass, Javascript, Jquery., CSS and HTML
- Being familiar with React would be a bonus!
- 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
- Free parking.
- Pension scheme.
- Free Wi-Fi.
- Summer and Christmas parties.
- Travel Perks.
- Flexible working
- We have regular socials and try afford our staff the right work to life balance in order to make sure they can focus on the things that matter to them
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