Skyscanner bukanlah pemain kemarin sore dalam bisnis online travel. Skyscanner yang fokus ke perbandingan harga antar berbagai airlines didirikan tahun 2001 di Edinburg, Skotlandia oleh Gareth Williams, Barry Smith, dan Bonamy Grimes, dan telah menjadi yang terdepan di Eropa dalam bisnis ini. Baru-baru ini Skyscanner membuka kantor keduanya di Singapura dan dalam enam bulan saja telah memperoleh kenaikan traffic hingga 400% di Asia Pasifik, terutama di Indonesia, meskipun mereka tidak menyebutkan secara spesifik berapa persentasenya dari Indonesia sendiri.

Tentunya kenyataan ini tidaklah mengherankan. Ketersediaan low cost airlines ke berbagai tujuan dan meningkatnya tingkat kesejahteraan telah membuat booming bisnis ini. Skyscanner tentu saja tidak mau tinggal diam dalam perlombaan ini. Mereka telah menyiapkan Skyscanner.co.id yang secara keseluruhan menggunakan bahasa Indonesia. Bisa dibilang semua rute domestik dan mancanegara telah masuk dalam database Skyscanner dan saya tidak menemui kesulitan untuk memperoleh harga Garuda, Citilink atau Sriwijaya sekalipun dengan situs ini.

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Skyscanner is not a new player in the online travel business. Skyscanner, focusing on comparing prices between different airlines, was established in 2001 in Edinburgh, Scotland by Gareth Williams, Barry Smith and Bonamy Grimes, and has been at the forefront in this business in Europe. Recently, Skyscanner has opened its second office in Singapore and in six months obtained 400% increase in traffic for Asia Pacific region, especially in Indonesia, although it did not specify the percentage of the traffic from Indonesia itself.

Surely, this fact is not so surprising. Availability of low cost airlines to various destinations and increasing level of prosperity have made this business booming. Skyscanner certainly does not want to just sit around in this race. It has set up Skyscanner.co.id that is entirely in Indonesian. It is safe to say that all domestic and International routes have been included in Skyscanner’s database and I do not find any difficulty to get prices of Garuda, Citilink or Sriwijaya on this site.

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