Skyscanner App Makes Tracks With Launch of New Trains Feature

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Skyscanner has launched a new train booking feature, expanding our offering to UK travellers.

Today marks an exciting day for Skyscanner as we announce the launch of our brand new train booking feature.

The feature allows travellers to search for cheap rail tickets for domestic journeys with ease and without booking fees. UK travellers frequently search for more than 350 UK destinations on Skyscanner that aren’t served by a nearby airport. Now, they’ll be able to get to their destination by train with Skyscanner’s newest offering. The feature is now available on all iOS devices in the UK, and expands on our existing flight, hotel and car hire offerings.

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Our new trains service comes thanks to Trip.com, who will facilitate the bookings and also provide 24-hour customer service. Trip.com is Ctrip's new international travel booking service. Ctrip invested in Skyscanner in December 2016 in a deal worth £1.4bn. At Skyscanner, we remain operationally independent, but have benifitted from Ctrip technology and learnings, with our trains product one such example.

Bryan Dove, Skyscanner's Chief Technology Officer, said of the news, "Being part of the Ctrip group allows us to take advantage of elements of Ctrip’s technology and experience and bring that value to Skyscanner’s travellers. The launch of our train booking product is one such example. Our focus has always been on making travel as easy as possible and our new train feature will do just that, with the benefit of no booking fees.”

With mobile users now making up over 60% of Skyscanner's traffic, our trains feature is available for UK-based IOS app users now by visiting this page and will be made available to Android app users in the UK shortly. Skyscanner’s award-winning app has been downloaded over 70m times globally.