Travel Tuesday: searching for flights with Skyscanner

Do you ever just want to travel, but don’t really care where or when? Maybe it’s just me, but sometimes I feel like going somewhere new without having a preference for when or where I travel. Other times, I have a weekend I want to travel on but don’t mind where I go, as long as it’s inexpensive and somewhere new and interesting. It’s really hard to search for flights with such vague parameters; that is, it was difficult until I discovered the handy search functions that Skyscanner offers.

Skyscanner is a flight search and comparison site whose goal is “to become the first website in the world to be able to show you the cheapest way to travel from A to B – wherever you are and wherever you want to go.

My two favourite features are the ‘Everywhere’ option in the destination field and the ‘Flexible?’ options in the date field. This essentially allows you to find cheap flights to anywhere on a given day, or the best flights to your preferred destination within a month or even a year. Or you could just look for any destination over the whole year and see all of the places that you could go without spending a fortune.

Playing with this tool is incredibly addictive…and incredibly useful! I can’t recommend it highly enough for your travel planning. The website also offers searches for hotels, car hire, holidays and insurance which I haven’t yet tried but if those features are anywhere near as good as their flight search tool, they will be well worth a look.

Have you used these search options on Skyscanner? Where did your searching take you? Please share in the comments below.

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