alistair hann of skyscanner
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Alistair Hann of Skyscanner examines a new way of booking travel at the Facebook developers garage at the Turing Festival, August 2011.TRANSCRIPT
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Alistair HannCTO, skyscanner
Pioneering a new way to search for travel
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introducing skyscanner in numbers
our ranking in Europe by traffic
languages in which Skyscanner is available
countries with over 50,000 visitors per month
of monthly sessions sourced from repeat customers = strong loyalty
revenue growth year on year
airlines searched
visits per month
revenue in current financial year and significantly profitable
searches per month
downstream flights booked in last 12 months
prices checked every month
1
23
30+
50%
75%
600
14.5m
£15m
50m
$1bn
8bn
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search the way you want to search…
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“from beermat to mouse mat in 24 hours”
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…and the answer we came up with
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67QFWgK3CtY
video and demo
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Facebook Receiver
Facebook Poster
Message Parser Message FormatterAnswer Service
Free Text Search API URL ShortenerSkyscanner API
Facebook API
30 sec5 sec 2 sec
system architecture
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it is being used
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what’s next?