Who owns Skyscanner?
Skyscanner is owned by Trip.com Group (China, NASDAQ: TCOM), which has owned the brand since 6 December 2016.[1]
Evidence: Trip.com Group Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-28, SEC EDGAR, 28 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Trip.com Group Limited verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Shanghai
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Edinburgh
- Founded
- 2003
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online travel › Travel metasearch
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: TCOM
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Skyscanner
Skyscanner was founded in Edinburgh in 2003 by three friends frustrated by the cost of flights to the Alps, and it compares fares across airlines and agencies rather than selling tickets itself. Ctrip acquired it in 2016 for about £1.4 billion.
What Trip.com Group's annual report says about Skyscanner
Sentences about Skyscanner from Trip.com Group's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Skyscanner is developing an aviation sustainability framework that creates greater transparency on carbon emissions for individual flights and highlights the sustainability practices of different airlines.
How often Trip.com Group names Skyscanner in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Skyscanner
- 2016 – present Trip.com Group [1] verified
Where Skyscanner sits in Trip.com Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Trip.com Group
Trip.com Group controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in travel metasearch, and who owns them
The 8 brands in travel metasearch on Brandtree belong to 6 owners. The largest is lastminute.com Group, with 2; Trip.com Group has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Hotelscan | lastminute.com Group | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| KAYAK | Booking Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Liligo | eDreams ODIGEO | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| trivago | Expedia Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Tripadvisor | Tripadvisor | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Jetcost | lastminute.com Group | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
About the owner: Trip.com Group
Trip.com Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Shanghai, China, founded in 1999. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: TCOM.
Trip.com Group was founded in Shanghai in 1999 as Ctrip and is the largest online travel company in Asia. Its purchase of Skyscanner in 2016 means the flight comparison site used across Britain and Europe is owned from Shanghai, which almost none of its users realise.
Trip.com Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇬🇧 Skyscanner and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Skyscanner among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Skyscanner?
The parent company of Skyscanner is Trip.com Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is Skyscanner British or Chinese?
Skyscanner originated in the United Kingdom in 2003, but it is owned today by Trip.com Group, which is headquartered in China. So Skyscanner is a British-origin brand under Chinese ownership.
Since when has Trip.com Group owned Skyscanner?
Trip.com Group has owned Skyscanner since 6 December 2016.
Is Skyscanner still owned by Trip.com Group?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Skyscanner is still owned by Trip.com Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Trip.com Group Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-28 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 28 April 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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