Is Skyscanner still the best?

Bottom line: Google Flights and Skyscanner are two of the best sites for searching for flights. Both have some great functionality, but each also has some areas for improvement. That's why we often recommend pairing multiple search sites to ensure you're getting the best deal.



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The answer is Yes! Skyscanner is an independent company with the sole goal of helping you find the best option for your personal travel plans. Every month, over 100 million customers trust Skyscanner to help them find the best deals on flights, hotels, and car rentals.

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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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In that action Ryanair claims unlawful “screen scraping” by Skyscanner involving the use of software to interact with its website to extract and use for commercial gain information such as prices and timetables. It says this is in breach of the use of the terms of its website and its intellectual property rights.

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However, airlines say prices change not because of a consumer's search history on a website, or their cookies, but because of inventory updates or glitches on the website, FareCompare's Rick Seaney said in an email.

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Weaknesses of Skyscanner As with Google Flights, Skyscanner sometimes displays ghost fares that are no longer active. And, while it does have great flexible date searching, its fare calendar doesn't live-update, which means the pricing you see for less frequently searched routes might be incomplete.

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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 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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Cost and convenience. When it comes down to it, booking directly through the airline is almost always more convenient. If the price changes after you buy your ticket, many airlines will get you the difference back.

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Finding cheap airline tickets is easier when you have flexible dates, and Google Flights takes advantage of the price changes from week to week. The result is more informed decisions when it comes time to book.

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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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What's a Hacker Fare? Instead of making you book one round-trip ticket from a single airline, KAYAK plays airfare matchmaker by finding two one-way tickets that together make a round-trip flight. Sometimes that means you might take a different airline home than the one you took to your destination.

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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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The closest competitor to skyscanner.com are cheapflights.com, united.com and cheapoair.com. To understand more about skyscanner.com and its competitors, sign up for a free account to explore Semrush's Traffic Analytics and Market Explorer tools.

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Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the cheapest days to fly domestically. The cheapest days to depart if you're flying within the U.S. are midweek — generally Tuesday or Wednesday. For economy tickets, Tuesdays are about 24% lower than peak prices on Sundays, which translates to savings of about $85 per ticket.

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More specifically, Tuesday at about 15:00 eastern time. This is because many airlines release weekly sales early on Tuesday, which creates competition between airlines to match prices.

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While the airline does fly to some main airports, the majority of its flights operate to and from cheaper secondary airports. These airports charge a lot less for things like slots, parking, and airport fees, so Ryanair can afford to offer low fares on these routes.

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