CarTrawler Fly drives with Skyscanner

June 11, 2009 - PRLog -- Leading car rental distribution system https://www.cartrawler.com has just announced that it is now providing its services to cheap flight site Skyscanner.  As well as being able to book the cheapest flights anywhere on the Skyscanner site, users can also now book the best car rental deals worldwide.  

Commenting on the partnership, Robin White , Sales Manager of CarTrawler said: "In an increasingly competitive market for car rental, it's important that a comprehensive and neutral product offering is offered to the consumer in a very efficient way. Using CarTrawler, Skyscanner's very large and diverse customer base will benefit from the most relevant content possible. In one simple move, Skyscanner have significantly boosted their revenue per visitor - and we're delighted to be the cornerstone for that."

http://www.skyscanner.net users can search over 500 leading and independent car rental suppliers in 135 countries in 15,000 city and airport locations, checking car availability, price and rental brand with one search response time of less than a second. Over the next week, as new functionality is added, they will also be able to search in 22 languages and multiple currencies.

"It's a natural move for us," said Frank Skivington, Skyscanner's Commercial VP. "Skyscanner users are independent people who use the web to research the best deals across their full travel itinerary, not just flights. Cars are an essential element of many trips - leisure or business - and we are delighted that users can now book their car hire with Skyscanner too. Hotels and holidays are next in line to be added to the Skyscanner site and we'll be launching these in the near future."




About CarTrawler:
https://www.cartrawler.com/ is the first company to provide a next generation car rental distribution system, specializing solely in car rental solutions, enabling increased revenues for its customers and suppliers. The Company offers the largest selection of car rental from over 500 leading and independent car rental suppliers in 135 countries in 15,000 city and airport locations, in 22 languages, quoting in multiple currencies, through the customer's existing website and brand identity, ensuring high levels of consumer conversion, repeat bookings and brand protection.

CarTrawler's target customers include: Airlines, Lodgings (hotels, villa and apartment rentals, hostels), Online Travel Agents (OTAs), Information Websites (Media websites, National Tourism Organisations, Airport websites etc.), Travel & Transportation (Car Rental, Rail and Ferry sites), Travel Agency Desktops (Retailers).

About Skyscanner:
Skyscanner, founded in 2003 by former IT consultants Gareth Williams, Bonamy Grimes, and Barry Smith, is Europe's leading flight search engine. Its flight search engine attracts around one million enquiries every day. An independent, free-to-use site, it represents a major advance in flight search engine technology, enabling users to search across multiple airlines and delivering up-to-date prices in seconds. Skyscanner's database already covers more than 180 airlines flying to 5,000 destinations. Its strategy is to become the first dedicated flight search engine to include every scheduled flight in the world. It will cover all UK outbound flights by early 2008, followed by all European flights and then the rest of the world. The company is privately-owned and Scottish Equity Partners is its first venture capital backer.



For further press information, contact Fiona Hilliard: fhilliard@cartrawler.com

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