Skyscanner: how to find a cheap flight in minutes

It's hard to disagree that long-distance travel is most comfortable on wings. There is only one problem: how to reduce flight costs as much as possible? With the development of the Internet, a lot has changed, including the search for information. Now a person does not need to search for anything himself - specialized web services do it for him. We have found a very convenient service for searching and booking flights called Skyscanner and we offer you an overview of its chips, advantages and disadvantages.

At first glance, the intuitiveness and unobtrusiveness of the interface pleases: we are not asked to register or enter tons of information. We simply indicate the point of departure and destination, and the choice is not limited to a specific airport. It is often wiser to set a more general parameter (for example, your city, if it has several airports). Thanks to this, you can find a more profitable flight option. It also indicates the consent to the offer of flights with transfers, as well as the number of tickets and the age category.

When the route is determined, it is time to decide on the date of travel. Very often, circumstances develop in such a way that a person is ready to wait a few days for a better ticket price offer. Skyscanner can search not only by specific dates, but also by periods of a month and a whole year.

With such a selection, a menu will open in front of the user, on which the most advantageous offers for each day in a table or calendar format will open in a convenient graphical form.

We select the appropriate departure and, if necessary, return, after which the service will display options from all available airlines, indicating all the details of the flight.

It remains only to look through the sweetest in price and choose the most suitable one according to the conditions. If you wish, you can share the found offer in popular social networks. For example, air tickets to Istanbul at such prices may be of interest to friends.

For those who care about the time or the airline, you can sort offers by these criteria in the corresponding tabs "compare time" and "compare airlines".

Separately, I would like to note the choice of the destination of the flight directly on the map. When you move the cursor to the destination city, the availability of available flights and their characteristics are indicated. Thus, you can quickly assess the situation with ticket prices to all cities and countries of interest without having to enter the filter parameters a dozen times.

In addition to the browser interface, Skyscanner offers mobile applications for all popular platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8 and BlackBerry. It makes no sense to talk about them separately, since they actually duplicate the search functions through the site, providing a comfortable interaction taking into account the small touch screen.

Finally, I would like to note some additional usefulness of Skyscanner. The service website has a section with guides for beginners in the field of air travel. This is great because it will help you avoid many of the problems that people unknowingly face when traveling by air. Another big plus: the presence of a built-in service for organizing a comfortable stay in the country and city of destination. Here you can book a hotel and rent a car.

Outcome

In general, the service was certainly pleased. The system of filtering offers, which at first seems too sophisticated, ultimately justifies itself, allowing you to find an air ticket that is completely satisfactory in all respects. I am very pleased with the absence of commissions from the service itself and the high accuracy of calculating ticket prices. In general, if you are planning a trip, be it a vacation or a business visit, do not miss the opportunity to save money.