Skyscanner
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Type of site
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Metasearch engine |
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| Headquarters | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| Owner | Ctrip |
| Key people | Gareth Williams (CEO) |
| Revenue | £120 million (2015) |
| Website | skyscanner.net |
| Alexa rank | 1349 (Global, April 2017) |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 2002 |
Skyscanner is a travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine. The website is owned by Ctrip since November 2016, the largest travel company in China. The site is available in over 30 languages and is used by 60 million people per month. The news section of the website includes regular news from the travel and flight industry and travel tips for customers. The website is the winner of many awards.
Skyscanner is headquartered in Scotland, with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, with others in Singapore, Sofia, Beijing, Miami,Barcelona, (following Skyscanner's 2013 acquisition of Spanish hotel comparison firm, Fogg),Budapest (after acquiring app development agency Distinction) and Shenzhen, (following acquisition of Chinese company Youbibi) and Tokyo (following a joint venture with Yahoo! Japan).
Skyscanner recently took the top three floors of The Avenue, an office and retail building on the corner of Bedford Avenue and Tottenham Court Road in London’s West End.
The company was formed in 2001 by three information technology professionals, Gareth Williams, Barry Smith and Bonamy Grimes, after one of them was frustrated by the difficulties of finding cheap flights to ski resorts.
Skyscanner was first developed and released in 2002. In 2003, the first employee was hired to assist with site development. The Edinburgh office was opened in 2004.
In 2011, Skyscanner acquired the door-to-door travel site Zoombu for an undisclosed amount.
Skyscanner opened an office in Singapore in September 2011, which is headquarters for its Asia-Pacific operations.
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