Is Skyscanner owned by Expedia?

Expedia owns Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, eBookers and CheapTickets, while Booking Holdings comprises Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Kayak, Cheapflights, Rentalcars, Momondo and OpenTable. Ctrip, China's biggest travel agent, owns Trip.com, Tours4fun and Skyscanner.



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Is it safe to book online with Skyscanner? Absolutely. Your safety is important to us. We ensure that all our partners integrated within our platform meet Skyscanner's security standards.

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Expedia Group, Inc. is an American travel technology company that owns and operates travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Travelocity, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Ebookers, CheapTickets, CarRentals.com, Expedia Cruises, Wotif, and Trivago.

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Our goal is to make the fares you see as transparent as possible. This means we don't take any kind of fee or influence your search results in any way.

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As a travel search engine, Skyscanner doesn't take your booking or payment ourselves. Instead, we pass you through to your chosen airline or travel agent, where you make your booking directly. We, therefore, don't have access or visibility to any of your booking information.

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For changes, cancellations or refunds, we recommend that you contact the travel provider that you completed your booking with. As a travel search engine, Skyscanner doesn't take your booking or payment ourselves. Instead, we pass you through to your chosen airline or travel agent, where you make your booking directly.

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Skyscanner is moving from a functional to emotional approach to marketing and putting more focus on its brand to appeal to consumers who expect “much more” from travel companies. Skyscanner is rebranding as it looks to “redefine” its purpose with its largest marketing investment to-date.

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Skyscanner is a middleman between you and the third-party website that you book your flight on. They don't take bookings and payments through their website. Once you've found the flight that you want to buy on Skyscanner's website, you're handed off to another website where you make the booking.

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Skyscanner is often able to find the lowest flight prices because it searches smaller OTAs that other search engines neglect. Price alerts for specific dates/routes. If you have set dates and a set destination, you can set up an alert and you will receive email notifications of price fluctuations on that route.

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Some people have pointed out that Kiwi.com doesn't include budget airlines around Asia and Southeast Asia, so for that, Skyscanner still wins out for best budget airline coverage amongst all the fare aggregators.

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