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Travel price comparison platform
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Mid, Senior
Edinburgh, UK
Skyscanner is a travel search engine that helps users find and compare prices for flights, hotels, and car rentals. It serves a wide range of customers, from individual travelers to businesses, by providing a platform where they can easily search for the best travel deals. Skyscanner works by aggregating data from various travel providers, allowing users to see real-time price comparisons in one place. This makes planning trips more efficient and cost-effective. Unlike many competitors, Skyscanner primarily earns revenue through affiliate marketing and advertising, receiving commissions from travel service providers when bookings are made through its site. The goal of Skyscanner is to simplify travel planning and help users save money on their travel arrangements.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$2B
Headquarters
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Founded
2003
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Skyscanner has appointed its current chief operating officer (COO), Bryan Batista, to the role of CEO.Batista will take over from current CEO John Mangelaars on June 1. Batista joined the flight metasearch platform as COO in January 2024, having previously held leadership positions at Tesla and Booking.com and acting as CEO of Rentalcars.com and senior vice president of its trips business unit.“We built Skyscanner because we are travel geeks at heart. We love the thrill of exploring new places and we hate the pain of planning. Since joining Skyscanner, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with our incredible teams and travel partners,” Batista said
Many who have left the travel industry often end up back in the industry because they love its ever-changing nature, the people and the dynamics.Filip Filipov, a former vice president of Skyscanner, left travel more than four years ago, and is now back as chief operations officer of airline data specialist OAG.He joined us in the PhocusWire studio during The Phocuswright Conference in November to discuss what he has observed about the industry from the outside looking in.New LinkFilipov spoke about how some of the same challenges persist as well as the pace of innovation generally.He went on to discuss the "paradigm shift in the usage of data" that he is seeing and how projects that were being talked about five years ago are now happening.Filipov also said he's watching to see how improved access to, and usage of, data will be applied to the travel B2C and B2B worlds going forward, especially as AI developments take hold.He also touched on AI agents in travel and said he doesn't believe they will proliferate that quickly."The missing component here is nailing the customer journey and having enough data to actually power it. The more information you have the better the experience you will give."Watch the full interview below.Executive Interview: An outside perspective on travelVIDEO
OAG, a premier data analytics firm in the global travel sector, recently revealed the appointment of Shane Corstorphine, a former Skyscanner executive, as a non-executive director.
Ahead of Scotland's four international matches in North and South America, leading travel brand Skyscanner have partnered with Scottish Rugby for the Skyscanner Americas Tour.
Skyscanner introduces Savvy Search with AI.