Skyscanner

Skyscanner is a global search engine that enables people to find comparisons for flights, hotels and car hire. The service is free to users and directs you to the airline, hotel, car hire provider or travel agency to complete the booking process.

The site is multilingual, offering flight searches in over 30 languages[1] including Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish and Japanese.

Skyscanner does not sell flights directly; instead, the site can be used to find the cheapest deal for a desired route after which users are automatically transferred to the airline or travel supplier’s website to make their booking directly.

In addition to its flight search engine technology, Skyscanner also features regular news items from the travel and flight industry as well as travel tips for consumers.[2]

The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, as well as Singapore, Sofia, Beijing, Miami,[3] Barcelona, (following Skyscanner’s 2013 acquisition of Spanish hotel comparison firm, Fogg.,[4][5] Budapest (after acquiring app development agency ‘Distinction’) [6] and Shenzhen, (following acquisition of Chinese company ‘YouBibi’) [7] and Tokyo (following a joint venture with Yahoo! Japan)

Gareth Williams

CEO and Co-Founder

It was Gareth’s frustration with finding cheap flights that led him to create Skyscanner with two friends, Barry Smith and Bonamy Grimes. Gareth’s 14 years of experience as a developer for financial institutions and retail companies have helped him make Skyscanner one of the top digital travel companies in the world.

Gareth never travels without: “Pen and paper. It´s harder to doodle on a device.”