# Skyscanner

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/skyscanner/  
**Website:** https://www.skyscanner.net  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Skyscanner is an Edinburgh, Scotland–headquartered global travel marketplace that helps travellers compare flights, hotels, and car hire across hundreds of airlines, hotel providers, and online travel agents. Founded in 2003 and acquired by Trip.com Group (formerly Ctrip) in 2016, Skyscanner operates the consumer site skyscanner.net and a B2B partner programme that powers travel search experiences for third-party publishers and apps. The Skyscanner Travel APIs — Flights Live Prices, Flights Indicative Prices, Hotels Live Prices, Hotels Indicative Prices, Hotels Content, Hotels Reviews, Car Hire Live Prices, Car Hire Indicative Prices, Car Hire Agents, plus utility services for Culture, Geo, Autosuggest, and Carriers — are gated behind a partner application process and exposed only to approved partners with significant audience scale; full API documentation, base URLs, and OpenAPI specifications are published inside the partner portal rather than on the public developer site. Alongside the Travel APIs, Skyscanner runs an Affiliate Programme (commission on referred bookings) and a Distribution Network connecting airlines, hotel providers, car-hire suppliers, and OTAs to its 160M+ monthly users. Its public GitHub organisation is best known for the Backpack design system and for open-source infrastructure tooling such as cfripper and turbolift, rather than for SDKs against the Travel APIs.

## Kin Score — 5.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## Security (2)

- **Skyscanner Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Skyscanner Vulnerability Disclosure** — Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Travel, Travel Search, Flights, Hotels, Car Hire, Metasearch, Affiliates, Distribution, Online Travel Agency, Trip.com Group

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/skyscanner/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.