Skyscanner

Global flight metasearch whose AI turns plain-English requests into live-priced flight options.

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What is Skyscanner?

Skyscanner is a global flight, hotel and car-hire metasearch engine reaching around 100 million users a month with over 1 billion searches processed monthly. Its AI layer includes Savvy Search, a ChatGPT-powered tool that turns a plain description of your dream trip into up to three curated destination recommendations, and Explore with AI, a beta that accepts open-ended queries like 'cheap flights to Japan in December' and returns real, live prices with data-backed insights.

Key features

  • Savvy Search: ChatGPT-powered destination recommendations from plain descriptions
  • Explore with AI: conversational flight search returning live prices
  • Data-backed prompts (e.g. when months are cheapest) from pricing history
  • Everywhere search for open-ended inspiration
  • Price alerts on watched flights
  • Whole-month and cheapest-month calendar views
  • Comparison across 1,400+ travel partners
  • Multilingual search in dozens of markets

Pros

  • Explore with AI returns real live prices, not AI-estimated guesses
  • Massive scale: 100M monthly users, 80 billion prices searched daily
  • Ranked #2 in Frommer's 2026 comparison of 18 airfare search sites
  • Free to use with no account required for core search

Cons

  • Savvy Search and AI tools are primarily app-based, not on desktop
  • AI destination suggestions need verification against real flight prices
  • Free to search but Skyscanner earns from providers, so listings reflect partner inventory

Skyscanner at a glance

PricingFree
CategoryLifestyle
Platformsweb, ios, android
CompanyBooking Holdings
Official websitewww.skyscanner.com
metasearchflightsai searchsavvy searchprice alertscheap flightsdestination inspirationhotels

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Skyscanner FAQs

What is Skyscanner?

Skyscanner is a global flight, hotel and car-hire metasearch engine reaching around 100 million users a month with over 1 billion searches processed monthly. Its AI layer includes Savvy Search, a ChatGPT-powered tool that turns a plain description of your dream trip into up to three curated destination recommendations, and Explore with AI, a beta that accepts open-ended queries like 'cheap flights to Japan in December' and returns real, live prices with data-backed insights.

What are the main features of Skyscanner?

Skyscanner offers Savvy Search: ChatGPT-powered destination recommendations from plain descriptions, Explore with AI: conversational flight search returning live prices, Data-backed prompts (e.g. when months are cheapest) from pricing history, Everywhere search for open-ended inspiration, Price alerts on watched flights, Whole-month and cheapest-month calendar views, Comparison across 1,400+ travel partners and Multilingual search in dozens of markets.

How much does Skyscanner cost?

Skyscanner is free to use. Always confirm the current offer on its official website, as pricing can change.

What are the pros and cons of Skyscanner?

Strengths of Skyscanner include Explore with AI returns real live prices, not AI-estimated guesses; Massive scale: 100M monthly users, 80 billion prices searched daily; Ranked #2 in Frommer's 2026 comparison of 18 airfare search sites. On the downside, Savvy Search and AI tools are primarily app-based, not on desktop; AI destination suggestions need verification against real flight prices; Free to search but Skyscanner earns from providers, so listings reflect partner inventory.