Skyscanner contacts. Skyscanner: how to find cheap flights in minutes
I continue to fill the blog with general information articles. Perhaps someday this will result in a separate FAQ on the topic independent travel. I usually stick to this plan - if a question is asked repeatedly, then an article on this topic is needed, so that next time I can simply answer with a link. This time about how book a plane ticket, a kind of instruction for using the site.
And, yes, be sure to take a look, because still not everyone even knows how a hotel search engine differs from a reservation system.
So, I often use the service to search for air tickets, so I’ll tell you everything using its example. I like it there, and I like the interface, and the prices... Yes, and it so happened that I learned about it first of all, the habit of using it has already developed. On other sites, the process of selecting and booking a ticket will be very similar.
Skyscanner is an air ticket search engine, or in other words an aggregator, that is, it does not sell anything itself, but only shows prices for tickets from many airlines. It does not charge any commissions for use, but simply redirects you after searching and selecting a particular flight to the website of the airline or agency that sells these tickets. I will talk about this below now.
Thus, all your monetary relations will be with the agency or with the airline, because they were the ones who sold you the ticket, and not Skyscanner. It is important to understand this and pay attention to the site where you actually buy the ticket. Otherwise, newcomers still address their questions to the search engine, and not to the agency.
How to book a plane ticket
Fill out the form
All important points The photos I will talk about are marked with red lines.
The first thing we see on the main page is a standard search form, including points of departure, destination, and flight dates. Everything here is clear and simple. You can also look at the offers in the “Cheap tickets” block, it is below and to the right of the search form. Suddenly there is a direction that we just need. Or you can immediately fill out the search form.
searching results
For example, I need tickets from Moscow to Sochi. I fill out the form, click “Find” and get the result in the form of a list of flights with prices. For example, I chose Moscow-Sochi and back; there on August 1st, back on August 8th. The cheapest option offered is 10,151 rubles from Pobeda. In the search results there are filters on the left, where you can select a direct flight or with a transfer, select specific airlines, the interval for the departure time, the maximum travel time (a handy thing for filtering flights that are too long, remember it).
For each ticket option there are links: under the price on the right - to the agency (or airline) where you can buy a ticket, under it there is a checkmark “Real time” - this means that the price is relevant right now. There are options that the price was updated so many hours ago. Below we see links to other agencies selling these tickets and on the left you can click More details and see all the information about the selected ticket option.
By clicking More details, we see all the flight details, as well as which agencies offer ticket prices.
You can buy it either from an agency or from an airline. But the latter is not always offered. For example, in the case of Pobeda, Skyscanner suggests that you yourself see a link to it in the screenshot, and not just to ticket agencies.
Buying a ticket
After finding the desired flight, follow the link to the agency or airline where you can book a plane ticket. The steps there are simple - fill in your first and last name, select food and luggage (if any), and pay by credit card (). By the way, some agencies still have the opportunity to pay for a ticket with electronic money or cash in an office or communication store, for example, in Euroset or Svyaznoy. The option of paying in the office is more relevant for Moscow, since most of the offices are there. But when purchasing on the airline’s website, most likely there will be no payment options at all, and they will only offer to pay by credit card.
Before paying, make sure you read the ticket return policy (cheap tickets are usually non-refundable), baggage rules (I have a little about this), and select food and seats (if there is such an option).
Remember, you don't have to go from Skyscanner to agency websites and book a plane ticket. If the link to the airline is not provided, then you can manually find its website (we know its name from “Flight Information”), and check the price for the desired date, whether it is different or not, and choose where it is cheaper.
Useful features for travelers
Search for tickets on the Price Calendar
Since we chose round trip, the Calendar shows us two blocks of prices at once. Two blocks of prices (“Departure” and “Round and back”) and both for the month of August, as we chose. The bottom block is not very aptly named “There and Back”, it is actually a return ticket.
Please note that you can view search results in the “Table” format (I like it this way) or in the “Calendar” format. But the prices are shown the same, the only difference is in the visual display.
After poking around a bit with different numbers, I chose August 16 and August 23. Both days are Sunday, that is, nothing has changed much and I will also stay in Sochi for a week (last time I looked for August 1 and 8, those were Saturdays). Now the ticket costs 8,600 rubles (let me remind you that when specifying the exact dates the price was 10,151 rubles). The savings seem to be small, but if you have a family of 5 people, it will already be noticeable. And if you fly somewhere to Asia, where a ticket is 5 times more expensive, then the savings can be corresponding.
As you can see in the screenshot, you can choose a lower price, but the tickets will be for weekdays. If the day of the week is not important to you, you can always check and choose the cheapest option. And, please note, when you change the departure day on the calendar, the prices for the return ticket in the lower block also change.
Search for tickets by destination (country)
After clicking the “Find” button, we immediately see which cities in Germany have the cheapest tickets for the selected date and with which airlines. Now all that remains is to select the arrival city, for example, Berlin.
P.S. Cheap tickets and good travels to everyone!
Nowadays, buying cheap air tickets has become very easy, just a few clicks from your phone or computer and your vacation is planned and even paid for.
I downloaded Skyscanner as an application on my phone; it is on Skyscanner and Air Sales that I first check the availability of cheap air tickets in order to make a decision before purchasing.
So, to buy cheap air tickets using Skyscanner you only need to make a few clicks.
Don’t rush to say that you yourself are aware that Skyscanner has recently significantly improved and updated its interface, introduced new features and it has become very easy to buy cheap air tickets through the Skyscanner website.
Fly to Laos for 4,000 rubles or to Turkey there and back for 6,000 rubles? – Traveling around the world cheaply is not a myth, but a reality.
Want to know how? Read today's review, I hope it will be useful and help you save time and money.
Skyscanner buy cheap air tickets - where to start?
Skyscanner, if anyone didn’t know, is an aggregator program for searching for air tickets. That is, Skyscanner is looking for
based on your requests for air tickets from various airlines, compares them and gives you information about the cheapest
and profitable flights.
I often look for cheap air tickets for myself or my family and mainly use only two applications - Aviasales And Skyscanner simply because they are the best.
Flexible search on Skyscanner
Let's say you know that you have a vacation in January and want to find out where you can fly cheaply at this time.
No need to sit and remember which countries are suitable for you to travel, look for cheap air tickets for each city
and every country.
Just go to the Skyscanner website via this link and in the line from where we write Russia (then the service will show the most profitable flights throughout the country),
in the where column – select the flexible search “Everywhere”.
Where to fly for the weekend cheaply?
Even if you are just interested in air tickets and don’t know the exact dates or where you would like to fly,
not scary. You can enter the broadest request, for example select:
Departure – Russia, Where – Everywhere
There – Cheapest Back – Cheapest
and press to the Map icon on the top right
We get this map, on which the cheapest air tickets are marked with dots and
non-stop flights are marked in green, flights with one or more transfers in red.
We can also narrow the search by leaving all map options.
For example, I am in Thailand and wondering where I should fly from Bangkok in November 2016?
I look at maps and look for the cheapest air tickets (up to 4,000 rubles)
It turns out that for 4,000 rubles in November 2016 I can fly there and back to Vientiane Laos. Not bad.
And if you increase the amount to 6,000 rubles, then for 5,800 rubles I can fly there and back to Singapore.
Great prices!
That is, after spending just a few minutes on search in Skyscanner you can decide on the price, route, understand which destinations the cheapest air tickets are sold to
and subscribe to updates on air ticket prices if you don’t like the prices you come across or are in doubt.
Looking for cheap flights from airlines using Skyscanner
There is an opinion that you can buy cheap air tickets directly from airlines.
This is both true and not true. So, if you are lucky and by chance you went to the airline’s website exactly
when there are sales in the direction you need and you have time to buy.
Not so, because large companies that make money from selling airline tickets
They buy tickets in batches and it’s hard for an ordinary person to have time to buy what he’s looking for.
Why, in my opinion, is it easier to buy cheap air tickets on Skyscanner or Aviasales?
Because the same companies that end up selling you a ticket sometimes get rid of airline tickets
at the same prices as they were from the air carrier or even cheaper.
This is how I bought tickets for Aeroflot - Moscow-Bangkok-Moscow and Transaero when it was still operating.
Through the air ticket search engine, you can always catch the best cheap price.
Keep in mind that the cheaper the price and more popular direction, the faster this air ticket will be bought. So I advise you not to think twice and go
for booking and payment. Chip flights redeem very quickly, since thousands of travelers like you monitor air tickets.
In any case, it would be a good idea to go to the page of the airline you are interested in,
Skyscanner itself suggests users to do this:
Find out discounts and promotions on air tickets
In addition to subscribing to airfare price updates, check out
Skyscanner website to page current shares and cheap air tickets.
This information is current and updated frequently. There is an opportunity to buy the most
cheap air tickets even on last minute routes.
On the Skyscanner home page, click “Catch Discounts” at the bottom and see:
Flights to Europe (Vienna) from 85 euros, Amsterdam from 95 euros.
Flights to Asia by Qatar from 24,000 rubles to India and 28,000 rubles to Bangkok per flight
roundtrip. Very nice prices, by the way. And the company is good.
When can you buy the cheapest air tickets?
There are studies, statistics and traveler experiences that
adds up to some numbers.
Lifehacks for air tickets:
It is common knowledge that the cheapest air tickets are on weekdays.
and if your departure and arrival are scheduled for Saturday-Sunday, then the departure will be
most likely more expensive.
Or that it’s cheaper to buy a plane ticket in advance. At least 4-5 months, or better yet, earlier.
This way you save from 30 to 50% of the air ticket price.
The closer to departure the airfare, the more expensive it is.
The exception is “last minute” tickets that were “thrown away” without being sold.
or refusal tickets. That is, people changed their minds about flying - the tickets were returned to the system.
I just caught such cheap air tickets using price updates. It happened at 4-5 am
run to the computer to issue an air ticket as quickly as possible. But the price was worth it.
So, for example, a couple of days ago I bought tickets for my niece on the route Moscow-Simferopol and back through Skyscanner,
for 8900 rubles, at the peak of the season and with a return on August 31. For the same dates, everyone else had tickets from 14,000 rubles
My niece flew away, everything is fine :)
The cheapest air tickets are sold for off-season months - for example, cheaper
just buy air tickets for November, January and February. Or the end of August - beginning of September.
All these months are somehow connected with holidays. For example, you can fly to Thailand very cheaply
there and back at the very end of December, without capturing the new year, since that’s what everyone wants
celebrate under a palm tree.
In my memory, the cheapest air tickets from Bangkok to Moscow are at the end of December.
Airfare prices for a selected month or year can be viewed in table form:
It shows you the cheapest flights you can buy on Skyscanner for your dates.
How to pay for tickets on Skyscanner
Once you have chosen the air ticket you need and are ready to pay for it, click the continue button.
Don't forget about the option cheap month. By choosing it, you can plan your
vacation in advance by looking at which month air tickets are cheapest.
The cheapest air tickets are sold for off-season months for the region: Türkiye – January, February. Thailand – December (return to Moscow before the new year),
August and September. Crimea – all months except summer.
It is most profitable to buy cheap air tickets in advance. in 4-5 months.
Flights on weekdays (Monday) are cheaper than on weekends.
The conclusion is this. For many years now I have been searching for and booking the cheapest flights or through Skyscanner, or through Aviasales. These are the two search engines that I check first and subscribe
to update prices. Convenient search, a reputation that has been proven over the years, in general, I am satisfied with everything and there have never been any problems (ugh, ugh).
Do you have anything to add to my article? Do you know how it’s even more profitable to buy cheap air tickets?
Share in the comments!
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In fact, there is nothing difficult about saving on air tickets and flying with maximum benefit. I have been consistently buying flights only through Skyscanner for many years, but I only recently learned about some of the site’s tricks, which I am happy to share with others. In my opinion, this is the most convenient site of all.
How to buy the cheapest air tickets
There are several rules by following which you will get the most cheap ticket on that website.
1. If you are planning a trip in principle, for example, you dream of visiting Maldives , and it doesn’t matter to you what month you fly, on Skyscanner there is such an option as cheapest month for air travel to a specific country. By setting this parameter, the search engine will give you the cheapest prices for the entire year. Then, thanks to the scale, you can choose the cheapest day, flight, and so on.
Prices are available both in the chart in the form of scales and on the calendar. Just click on the cheapest ones and book your profitable round trip flight.
2. Probably everyone knows what to buy two-way ticket cheaper than one way, often twice as much. That is, if you buy two tickets from one carrier in both directions, it will practically cost you the price of one. In addition, in many countries, for example to Zanzibar , a visa is required to enter the country and is issued if you have round-trip tickets. But this also applies to domestic flights around the country, round trips are always cheaper (I apologize if I haven’t discovered America, but I thought it necessary to write)
3. I almost always buy tickets not directly from Skyscanner but go to the official website. Let me explain. If Flydubai offers me the best price or Qatar Airways I will most likely go to their official website and buy tickets there. This will help save another 400-500 rubles per ticket, but that’s not the point. In Skyscanner, whatever one may say, not full list all airline flights. Therefore, on official websites it is possible to buy at a more convenient time, for example.
4. Paying for the ticket is very simple, with bank card. You simply enter all the necessary data and in a couple of minutes you will receive an email e-ticket for any flight. If you are flying international flights It is better to print the ticket if it is not necessary within the country. Just go to the check-in counter with your passport, where you are already listed. For many years, I have never been asked for a printout of a ticket (both domestically and in other countries). The only thing you need it for is to obtain a visa at the border, where you need a return ticket and a guarantee that you are not going to stay with them))
The cheapest prices for air tickets can be found through this form Skyscanner service - Skyscanner.
⇐⇐ Skyscanner for flight tickets here
Skyscanner flights searches for the best price on flights from Moscow or any other city. You can specify a flight from Africa to or from Europe to Russia or Ukraine.
Absolutely any directions. Air ticket scanner - will automatically select the most best price for tickets from more than 700 airlines around the world and online air ticket agencies.
You yourself will be able to find from the proposed list the air tickets and airline that suits you 100% in terms of price, flight time, convenience, number of connections, etc. You can also do this in advance in the country where you are flying. Sky Hotel Scanner will also help you find the lowest price among all reliable online hotel booking agencies.
Practice has shown that for some reason the most favorable prices are found through the SkyScanner service! Compare airfare prices yourself and find the cheapest plane tickets online. And you will see that Skyscanner really helps you find the cheapest price for air tickets.
Book plane tickets using Skyscanner
Every journey begins with the purchase of the coveted rough pieces of paper - plane tickets, which we nervously fiddle with, excited before departure. This usually happens the first time, but over time, when flights become something more or less familiar to us, we pay more attention to the cost of tickets and the level of comfort than to the atmosphere before the flight.
So, after a while, many tourists begin to try to find cheaper tickets, Internet users strive to place an order for plane tickets through online services, such as Skyscanner. And the most experienced ones try to fly not through travel agencies, but as savages, while saving up to two-thirds of their vacation costs. In any case, such a service as booking plane tickets allows you not only to save time and money, but also to simplify your life.
If you have a hotel reservation and, as a result, an already open visa to the country where you are going. There's no point in overpaying travel agency for formally accompanying you along the way - in fact, you are still left to your own devices. Simply having more freedom allows you to plan your excursions more freely. When you plan to vacation with small children, being tied to the general routine makes the trip simply an unbearable ordeal.
Now you don't have to worry about having to obey regulations. Just book a hotel room in the country where you are going, submit documents for a visa to the consulate of the resident country. And don’t forget about booking plane tickets - having a reservation greatly increases your chances of successfully obtaining a permit.
Hotel booking and car rental Skyscanner
Now you can use Skyscanner to book hotels and rent a car abroad. Use proven services while traveling!
One of the largest search engines for air tickets. Like Aviasales, Skyscanner itself does not sell tickets: after searching for the best option, it redirects us to the website of the seller of the selected tickets. He doesn’t take any commission for this either.
Skyscanner has several interesting features, which I will talk about below.
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For 365 days, multi!
For citizens of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the full cost with all fees = 8200 rub..
For citizens of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia = 6900 rub.
For now, let's fill out the search form.
Let's say I want to find tickets Samara - Delhi - Samara, there on March 4, back on March 25.
Everything is as usual. Fill in “From”, “Where”, one way or back and forth. We set the dates, the number of passengers, click “Find” - and wait a few seconds.
We see the search result. They look something like this:
On top - the most low price. Further down it becomes more and more expensive.
In this case, the best offer is from Flydubai airlines with a transfer in Dubai. We see that the lowest price is offered by the airline itself (highlighted in red). In this case, agents have higher prices.
This doesn't always happen. Sometimes agents have lower prices than on the airline's website.
Next, click “View” - and Skyscanner redirects us to the Flydubai website to complete the booking process. While the redirect is being performed, we are shown a message indicating that the availability of this tariff is being checked. Those. While we are looking for and choosing profitable flights, the Universe does not stand still, and the situation may change, and along with it the ticket price may change (both positive and negative).
Flydubai is opening - that's right! – the price suddenly became lower: not 25,235 rubles. (as Skyscanner showed), but 24500!
The price has been checked and you can proceed to payment. We fill in the passenger data and pay for the ticket with a Visa or MasterCard.
Just in case, let me remind you about such a wonderful thing as. If we want to use this chance and walk around Dubai, then we look at the “Rate Conditions”, and if a stopover in Dubai is allowed on our tariff, then we call the airline and book it!
Skyscanner, search on map
In the upper right corner there is a small link “Search on the map”.
If, after filling out the “From” and “To” fields, you click on this link, a map will open on which you can see all the cities along the route of our route. Firstly, it’s just interesting :-), and secondly, you might think about whether we would like to make a transfer somewhere and check out in order to walk around some new places.
Advanced functions of the Skyscanner search engine. Search by country
If we are going to travel around a country, and we don’t care which city of this country we fly to, then instead of the name of the city, we can enter the name of the country, in this case we will be shown various cities of this country, and we can analyze each city by prices.
If we are not limited to fixed dates, then we can use the “Search throughout the month” and “Search throughout the year” functions.
1. Fill in the “From” and “Where” fields.
2. We mark “One way” or “Round trip” if we want to fly.
3. Select the desired month (let’s say we want to fly there in March and back in April).
4. Click “Whole month” in the lower right corner.
5. Click “Find”.
6. A table appears.
7. The table clearly shows which dates have the cheapest air tickets.
We select the date “There”, based on minimum price. Let's celebrate this date.
8. Select a “Return” date based on the minimum price and desired duration of the trip. Let's celebrate this date. Let's say I choose March 12 - April 12.
9. We see the full cost of a round-trip flight.
If it’s more convenient for us to look at prices in numbers, click the “Calendar” tab.
Next, the search algorithm is similar.
Search all year on Skyscanner
Instead of the “All month” button, click “All year”.
By default, the month with the lowest prices opens.
If we want to look at another month, then select it in the drop-down window.
Based on these data, we select the day of departure “There” and the day of departure “Back”.
Below we see the full round-trip price.
Finally yay!! Skyscanner also (as well as Aviasales) now has the “Composite route” function!
Now you can set not only the start and end points of the path, but also intermediate ones. This is already much more interesting.
« Composite route“- this is when we want to fly to one city and fly away from another, or fly to one, stay there, fly to another, stay there, then to a third, etc.
It looks like this:
When we press the button Difficult route” – instead of two windows (From-Where), more lines are added. This really greatly expanded the functionality of Skyscanner; they didn’t have this function before.
We drive in different cities along the chain - and... we create a route for a trip around the world!
Well, if we are not yet ready for a round-the-world trip (it’s just a matter of time!), then we simply enter, for example, an arrival in one city and a departure from another. And between these two cities we travel at our leisure by trains, buses, and cars.
Or we set some intermediate city and do it in it, which is also very interesting.
Filters for searching for flights
Like the Aviasales search engine, Skyscanner has filters for the optimal search for air tickets. They are located in a column to the left of the results table.
- Filter “Transfer on the way”. If we want to fly without a transfer, we put a tick in the “Direct” checkbox, and clear the rest.
- If we have preferences regarding the departure time, we install the appropriate engine at the desired time.
- You can also set “Travelling time”.
- Filter by airlines. If for some reason we want to fly with a specific airline (but don’t want to fly with others), then we put a tick in the checkbox opposite this company and clear the rest.
And now - an interesting feature that will help reduce the price of our tickets even more.
A tricky way to use the Skyscanner search engine to reduce the cost of flights
On Skyscanner, unlike Aviasales, in the “Where” field we can write not only a city, and not only an entire country, but also the magic phrase “Everywhere (All countries)”.
How can this magic phrase help us? I'll explain with an example.
Let's say we need to fly from Moscow to Manila (Philippines) as cheaply as possible.
First, of course, we look at the prices “Moscow - Manila” and choose the most profitable option. Now let’s see if it’s possible to fly even cheaper. To do this, we do this.
In the “From” field we write “Moscow”.
In the “Where” field we write “Everywhere (All countries)”.
We see a long list of countries and prices. Write it out in the left column.
Click “New Search”.
Now in the “From” field we write “Manila”, in the “Where” field we write “Everywhere”.
Once again a long list of countries and prices appears. Write it out in the right column.
And we look at the coincidences. We choose countries from where you can fly to both Moscow and Manila.
Then it’s already clear: open this country (by clicking on it), select a city and sum up the prices of both segments.
Example.
We are looking at a one-way ticket from Moscow to Manila on February 19.
The lowest price shown by Skyscanner is 24,920 rubles (Air China via Beijing).
We try to use our cunning method - and we get, for example, this option:
Moscow – Bangkok = 13081 rubles. (S7)
Bangkok - Manila = 9841 rub. (Philippine Airlines)
The total cost turned out to be 22,922 rubles, i.e. exactly 2 thousand rubles cheaper (sometimes it is significantly cheaper).
Why Skyscanner itself doesn’t show this option, I don’t know. There is a version that search engines do not combine regular airlines with low-cost airlines, but in this case both airlines are not low-cost airlines, so this is not the reason, but the fact remains that this cunning method can make the ticket even cheaper.
So, click on this funny banner, go to the Skyscanner website - and choose the cheapest air tickets:
Happy flying to us!
