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Skyscanner is a global metasearch engine for information on the World Wide Web 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 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.
The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, as well as 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)