Huawei and the travel app Skyscanner, which helps millions of travelers find the best options for flights, hotels and car rentals, recently announced a strategic partnership.
As part of the cooperation, integration between Skyscanner’s Flight Search API, which provides global content and coverage from more than a thousand global suppliers, and Petal Search and Petal Maps in the Huawei Mobile Service ecosystem. In this way, Petal Search and Petal Maps users will be able to easily plan their travels using Skyscanner’s rich infrastructure, and will be able to evaluate many different options for flight tickets, hotel reservations and car rentals. With this innovation, which will be offered to 200 million monthly active users in 170 countries, mainly in Europe, through Huawei Petal Search and Petal Maps, Petal Search users will enjoy easy access to the same content, coverage and competitive prices that local Skyscanner users are used to.
Thanks to the new strategic partnership, millions of Petal Search users will be able to easily find the best flight options at the most competitive prices.
Skyscanner Global Marketing Director Sonja Balcer said: “We are pleased to partner with Huawei to support flight discovery in Petal Search with our industry-leading API. Petal Search users will now be able to access millions of flight combinations to thousands of different destinations around the world with one click, with the most competitive flight prices and fast results. Our collaboration comes at an important time for the travel industry. We believe that we will achieve great success together, both globally and locally, in the coming months and years.”
“86 percent of travelers plan to spend more or the same amount on travel than they did before the pandemic.”
Skyscanner’s collaboration with Huawei Mobile Services for Flight Search API integration comes at a time when airlines are again increasing their capacity and easing border restrictions around the world.
According to the latest survey results by Skyscanner, 86% of travelers plan to spend more or the same amount on travel than before the pandemic, and half plan to spend more. On the other hand, as the demand for travel increased rapidly in many parts of the world, it was observed that global search volumes increased by 20 percent in March compared to February.
Huawei’s Vice President of Mobile Services Europe, Jaime Gonzalo said, “As tourism gains momentum and consumer confidence grows, we think it’s the perfect time to encourage users to go out again. Petal Search is an efficient and reliable travel companion. “We want to support our adventure and travel-loving users by forging new and existing partnerships with travel and search brands to help them become more successful.” Gonzzalo also said, “The arrival of Skyscanner on Petal Search is in appreciation of our commitment to working with market leaders and innovators like Skyscanner, which works with more than a thousand suppliers. It’s a new milestone. This also supports us to offer more options to end users with a win-win approach.”
Aiming to provide a cutting-edge search experience to users around the world, Petal Search takes advantage of the latest technological developments and takes important steps towards new opportunities. On the other hand, it aims to offer a search experience full of high quality content and services by partnering with service providers that are in the leading positions in their sectors to make the daily needs of its users as effortless as possible.
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