6/19/2008 Germanwings awarded important prize for e-commerce
Germanwings has been awarded an important prize for e-commerce, at the 2008 German Multimedia Awards held in Berlin recently. The budget airline received the 2008 German Multimedia Award for its germanwings.com portal, making the Germanwings website the most successful e-commerce platform of the German tourist industry.
"We are very pleased with the award and look upon it as an incentive for the further development of innovative and user-orientated web concepts", said Thomas Winkelmann, spokesman for the board, who received the prize last Wednesday evening in Berlin.
The airline portal offers a wide range of pages, simple booking procedures and clear structures. Innovative sales tools such as the savings calendar, "blind booking" and the interactive route map make booking easy. The German Multimedia Award (DMMA) has been awarded since 1996 to excellent online-, offline- and terminal applications that represent examples of innovativeness and productiveness of interactive media.
Germanwings has already received many international prizes for the design of its online pages. In February 2008 the budget airline was awarded the "Web Oscar" in Miami for the best implementation of an interactive online gambling game and Germanwings has been the official prizewinner of the Webby Awards in the area of design and innovation. At the end of May 2008 Germanwings won the iF Design Award for the most well designed and user-friendly website.
