Hipmunk Turns to Skyscanner to Fill Its Global Airline Gaps
Photo Credit: Flight searches on Hipmunk for some international itineraries will now produce results powered by Skyscanner. The partnership is Hipmunk's first with a rival metasearch company. Hipmunk
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Does this new affiliate relationship between Skyscanner and Hipmunk portend a more strategic partnership in the future? Neither company is pointing to such a scenario for now.
Expansion beyond a travel company's home market is always a challenge and a key factor in the trajectory of a company.
It took Google Flights, for example, about a year and a half after debuting its U.S. domestic flight metasearch service to launch an international product as its business development people had to do the legwork involved in establishing partnerships with individual airlines and online travel agencies in Europe and Asia. Google got a lot of heat for the protracted nature of the international rollout but in retrospect 18 months really wasn't an immense period of time for such a thing.
Enter Hipmunk, the U.S.-based flight- and hotel-metasearch company that was founded in 2010. Hipmunk this week debuted t
