Travel Technology: How Women Can Use Skyscanner to Find the Cheapest Flights
1 min readAs an aggregator for flights, hotels and car rental, Skyscanner provides women with maximum flexibility when booking travel.
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How does Skyscanner work?
When it comes to booking travel, there are two kinds of websites to find flights: aggregators like Skyscanner, Tripadvisor or Google Flights and OTAs (online travel agencies) engines like Booking.com, Expedia, CheapOAir, Priceline, etc. Each has a different business model, but the good news is that the airline gets charged, not the consumer.
According to a recent Frommer’s study, Skyscanner came in at #2 on Frommer’s list among Aggregators (after Momondo/ Kayak). Frommer’s noted that Skyscanner includes a star rating for all third-party booking sites (and how many users rated it), which helps travellers vet unfamiliar sites.
An aggregator is only as good as the number of sites it scours for prices, and Skyscanner, which is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, says it has more than 1,200 flight, hotel and car hire partners. It has over 110 million users in 180 countries and 33 languages.
