Flight Search Engines – who are the Top Guns?
Friday 8 February 2008 Skyscanner.net first appeared on the scene as the original flight search engine but over the last few years, a number of other companies have developed sites which offer a similar service. Every now and then, we like have to a trawl through the internet to see who is doing what in the flight search market and have a look at which products are out there. One of the major factors for designers of a flight search engine is deciding which results to display – do you show affiliate airlines and companies only? Do you show just airline results or those from travel portals as well? For example, some flight search engines do not show any budget flights so when you could be flying somewhere for a fiver, you are shown only results for the scheduled airlines where you might pay twenty or thirty times as much for a ticket. The best sites quickly show as many airlines as possible and take you direct to the airline’s booking page with your travel dates filled in. We looked at
