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As an American, I find there are better tools for finding domestic flights. However, for international flights, Skyscanner is always my go to tool.
Skyscanner is based in Edinburgh, with another large office in Glasgow. This is huge news for the Scottish tech scene, and will hopefully bring much needed cash to help it thrive. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening here in all types of tech. Sadly Scotland's other unicorn, FanDuel, looks set to close its hq in Edinburgh after merging with draft kings. However, that will probably release a lot of talent to h…
> happening here Does that mean you're living there? I'm curious what the prospects are like there. There's been more discussion lately about us Americans looking for work abroad. My wife is finally on board with making a move out of the US as a family, so I'm glad it's being discussed more.
The biggest difference is the market. Expect to get paid 1/3 to 1/2 of the US.
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EDIT that being said, contracting can pay well if you have the right skills and don't mind who you work for.
I had to double check the number. Never thought that Skyscanner was this profitable.
As an American, I find there are better tools for finding domestic flights. However, for international flights, Skyscanner is always my go to tool.
I tend to use Hipmunk for both domestic and international flights; I haven't seen anything that comes close to Hipmunk's UI for presenting flights. What's the main advantage of Skyscanner?
I've tried using other sites before and while the UI on hipmunk is nice my experience was that skyscanner normally found options which were cheaper or didn't show up at all.
But I live in the UK and typically I'm booking long haul to Asia, I don't know if the situation is different elsewhere in the world or if perhaps skyscanner is concentrating on the UK market as its home market to an extent.
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> From about 2005-2009 I founded a hotel reservation platform in direct competition to CTrip and ELong So it's hotels only? No flights, cars etc?
Yep. Flights in China are routed through a single government clearing house not multiple commercial systems as per the west. In addition, at that time tickets still required physical delivery to the customer. Therefore, we considered it was too much hassle to go through the government approvals in order to compete with established local providers, a market which remains very fragmented. Car rental is beginning to tak…
I tried also other metasearches, but they mostly have offers from rubbish sites that show good prices and then you get a huge CC bill.
As an American, I find there are better tools for finding domestic flights. However, for international flights, Skyscanner is always my go to tool.
I've been using Google Flights exclusively since it was released, I love the UX.