Skyscanner then redirects them, and takes a cut for doing so, averaging below 2%.
Edinburgh-based travel company Skyscanner has announced plans to tackle the US market for sourcing air tickets online.
In moving into the US, Skyscanner is taking on the market leader in this field, the Kayak website.
The first Skyscanner app was launched last year, and it's already been downloaded more than 10 million times.
The proposition is that Skyscanner is not trying to sell you the ticket.
You can find out more about Skyscanner and its place in Scotland's e-commerce by listening again on BBC iPlayer.
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Skyscanner said that in January searches from the UK to Africa have increased by more than a quarter compared with the previous month.
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If there's one company in Scotland well placed to achieve the goal of being both a global player and a global consumer brand, it's probably Skyscanner.
Skyscanner has been operating for 10 years and now employs more than 180 staff across its four offices and will be recruiting another 100 employees over the next 12 months.
Skyscanner plans to open a Glasgow office - not to have a different team there, but to recruit from the west and allow people to split their time between the offices.
As Gillian also heard in compiling the Business Scotland programme, there are significant success stories in the sector - the rapid growth of Skyscanner, based in central Edinburgh and using some very smart software to eat up share of the vast online airline ticket booking market.
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