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Skyscanner — Compares millions of flights to find you the cheapest deal
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I like that you don't have to know where you're going, you can just search for flights by price out of a certain airport, or into an area. Really nice when you are trying to figure out where to go, especially if you're in Europe.
@jessiewould Actually Jesse. This was my go-to site last time I was in Europe. I found some crazy deals and visited some countries because it was too cheap not to
I like Skyscanner and they have a nice UX team. I've purchased at least 10 flights through the, but really they're just as boring an aggregator as Kayak. The only real company that is "different" in that space is Hipmunk and I've just never seen an inexpensive flight on Hipmunk. I usually check Hipmunk, then navigate away to find the cheaper price for the same flight :-/
This space is ripe for an overhaul!
Why is this on Product Hunt? Confused as to the criteria for what gets on here. The company is 13 y/o - this site version is at least a year.
I've used this site several times. Last summer, I used it to get a flight from Madrid to Cancun (one way) for $79. If you have the settings where you keep the date open and only choose countries, you can sometimes find really amazing deals. You just need to have a really flexible schedule.
There was a time where SkyScanner was epic... about two years ago you could get the most amazingly cheapest flights ever... but then they monetised.
Now the cheapest flights seem to get hidden... or such is my understanding
@visualpharm Yeah it's hard for me to quantify exactly what changed, to be honest.
But I did notice at one point that I went from getting dirt cheap flights to suddenly having a lot of, or all(?), of the possible bookings being routed to Flight Centre (Australian travel chain).
I believe at the time the main US version of the site still worked as normal.
Like I say, hard for me to quantify exactly what it was that changed...
Thanks for the post and comments. I work for Skyscanner, and I’m glad that many of you find our products useful. I wanted to jump in and answer some specific questions in the trail.
As a couple of people have said, you can search ‘everywhere’ if you want to check out destination options within your budget, or use the month or year view if you’re flexible on dates. As a travel search engine, we don’t set flight prices ourselves but rather show them on behalf of providers (airlines and travel agents). We are completely unbiased in our results, and show flights impartially based on the best options for price, route and duration. We would never hide the best price – we rely heavily on repeat visits, and doing so would not be conducive to that model.
For the same reason, price accuracy is something that we are putting increasing resource into monitoring, both in terms of staff and technology and our performance in that area has improved dramatically in the last year or so.
We insist that provider prices on Skyscanner always include any mandatory fees, and we always include any card fees that are incurred when using the majority card type that’s in circulation in each specific market. We are also working on ways of surfacing fees at the search stage, depending on which card you wish to pay with. Since we don’t control the pricing directly, occasionally there can be isolated cases where an incorrect price can show. When find these (or when we’re alerted to them) we work hard to remove/correct them as soon as possible.
We always investigate any issues, and can be contacted via our Help pages here:https://help.skyscanner.net/hc/e.... I hope that helps, and please do give us a shout via the Help pages - we’d be more than happy to answer any specific questions.
Been using it for years but sometimes they let me down. You find a really good deal, open the partner website to see ridiculously high prices. Reported couple of times but they've never considered removing the misleading prices. Stop using it for almost an year, checked the other day and all looks fine now. The most useful thing is the Monthly view. If you do not have fixed dates that helps to get the best airfare in Europe.
@chrisgeorgiev Chris. That's what I always do: use the monthly view. I've been able to find some really great deals that way.
Agree, although the comments are still interesting. When Google Flights appeared this was basically the end for the current version of Skyscanner, hope the team are working on something new.
Personally I feel that the site is not as good as a few years ago, maybe because they are succumbed to sponsoring airlines? There definitely appears to be a bias now.
I live year around in AirBnB apartments and flying with Skyscanner. Great product.
I wish if they care more about showing the final price. Sometimes you get a good deal, go to the website, go through the buying process and on the last step you see some dodgy "credit card charge" of 15 EUR.
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