Skyscaner has announced that travellers will be able to search for hotels and car hire from the existing app. For your information, Skyscanner is a the global travel search engine and this announcement make searching & booking travel a lot easier.
Kavitha Gnanamurthy, Senior Marketing Manager, Skyscanner said:
“We at Skyscanner understand the demands of the evolved traveller, providing them with the opportunity to plan a cost effective trip. With our unified app, we become the perfect travel partner to design an easy and smart trip, incorporating all of ones travel needs under one roof.”
Balint Orosz, head of app product, from Skyscanner said:
“At Skyscanner we believe it’s important to continue to innovate and develop technology as the needs of our customers evolve. We’ve incorporated all of the learnings and user feedback from our standalone hotels and car hire apps into this new, upgraded offering, making it the ultimate app to serve all your travel needs.”
The travel becomes a lot easier as in just one app, you get information about your flights, hotels and car hire. According a press note, The trend for both searching and booking travel on mobile has accelerated dramatically in recent years, with the Skyscanner apps having been downloaded over 40 million times worldwide. 45% of all Skyscanner searches in India are now made using a mobile device*, while the last year alone has seen a 24% increase in people booking via smartphones in India**.
App features to save money
A new Explore Top Deals section provides easy to navigate deals including:
- Summer holiday deals: For those on the hunt for sunshine this summer, find all the best options per month from your chosen airport
- City breaks: Travellers can find the cheapest options for a last minute weekend city break with this new feature
- Everywhere: For those with set travel dates yet totally flexible on destination, challenge Everywhere to find the top deals from your chosen airport
- Timeline view: This view allows travellers who have searched for a specific destination in the Explore Top Deals section the chance to easily find the best flight options for the near future
App Features to save time
The Quick Search section also has a number of new and refined features, including:
- Hotels and car search sync: Hotels and car hire are now automatically synchronized with flights search so travellers no longer have to re-input check in times, destinations, pick up locations, etc
- Revamped hotels booking view: Quick snapshots of all the key information (images, reviews, price) for hotel results with the revamped hotels booking view
- Instant flight search: search results are instantly refreshed, and as new parameters are set the search automatically starts in the background so no waiting for new results to load and as new parameters are set the search automatically starts in the background so no waiting for new results to load
- Ratings: To help travellers to pick the best flights for them quickly and easily, search results can be ordered by price, duration or ‘rating’ – the latter of which takes into account the price, number of stops and duration and is reflected in a colour coded smiling/frowning face and score out of 10
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