When comparing Hipmunk vs Skyscanner, the Slant community recommends Hipmunk for most people. In the question“What are the best travel search engines?” Hipmunk is ranked 1st while Skyscanner is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Hipmunk is:
Hipmunk also has a fantastic tab functionality that lets you keep track of multiple searches for both flights and hotels to help keep your planning organized.
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Pros
Pro Keeps track of multiple searches
Hipmunk also has a fantastic tab functionality that lets you keep track of multiple searches for both flights and hotels to help keep your planning organized.
Pro Handles complex searches
Supplementing the simple default interface are a variety of features to help you organise more complex trips, up to a 6-stop multi-city flight. When searching for flights you can also easily add a flexible range of suitable dates instead of having to search multiple times.
Pro Hotel search integration
Hipmunk has great hotel search as well, letting you find hotels by "Ecstasy" (an algorithm to the "Agony" sort for flight searches). It even provides you with local AirBnB listings, to save you time checking all the options when travelling.
Pro Fast and simple interface
Hipmunk provides a clean interface that's dense with visually well-presented information, not plastered with advertising. It uses a smart algorithm that automatically hides unwanted results, and ranks the rest by how much or little agony it will cause you. "Agony" is best explained by the sites co-founder Adam Goldstein:
A combined function of price, duration, and number of stops – basically the total agony you’ll experience in your butt and your savings.
This results in an experience that won't overwhelm you with pages of options to dig through to find the best option.
Hipmunk uses a timeline to visually show the differences between search results, and provides sliders to help narrow down results to just the ones that fit your schedule.
You can sort the flights by a price, duration, and airline, but the default ranking of "agony" is by far the superior option for finding the best flight.
Pro You can select multiple destinations
Actually, you can select "everywhere" as a destination.
Pro Convenient calendar search
Skyscanner has a calendar search, which shows you indicative pricing for the whole month.
Pro Easy to use
Skyscanner is really intuitive to use and clearly points out the best deals.
Pro Find air tickets based on flexible dates and also in advance by months
Cons
Con Flexible date search is limited
Can only search flexible dates up to 3 days.
Con No booking capabilities
Skyscanner is a search engine. It helps you find the best deals, and transfers you to that provider for booking.
Con No search for flexible dates
Skyscanner doesn't offer a way to search for flexible dates (e.g. give or take a few days from the date you specify) in order to find the best deals.