Skyscanner.net

Skyscanner is a cheap flights specialist with over 10 million monthly users searching 600 airlines on 670,000 routes.

CEO, Gareth Williams is happy to provide quotes on aviation related issues. The site can also be used to source relevant statistics for inbound and outbound flight searches e.g. flight searches to Bangkok following civil unrest

The calendar view allows users to see prices everyday for the month to search for the best value flight. The graph view gives monthly price charts to help users instantly find the cheapest flights. Great for checking the seasonality and prices of destinations across a year.

For those who don’t mind where they go, users can search ‘anywhere’ to find the best deals to ‘any’ location.

Skyscanner also allows users to compare direct and indirect flights

For example:

London Heathrow to Cyprus departing on Monday 16 August and returning on Saturday 21 AugustDirect: £388 (4h25, 5h) (Cyprus Airways)Indirect: £280 (6h50 6h45) (Austrian Airways) via Vienna£108 saving in price or 28% (family of four £432 pound saving)

All prices correct at time of writing in August

Recent accolades include Travolution’s best metasearch flight comparison site, ‘best metasearch site’ in the Travelmole Web awards 2010 and the company were also recently ranked 21st in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 making them the highest placed travel company.

Having seen growth of 140% for 2010, Skyscanner recently reported a record £3.5 million quarter. The company is focusing on rapid expansion in existing and new markets with the objective of becoming number one in the world.