What is Skyscanner Search with AI?
Search with AI (announced as Explore with AI) is a beta on Skyscanner's website that takes a natural-language request, such as cheap flights to Japan in December, instead of fixed destinations and dates. Results compare destinations on flight price, weather, flight time and 'vibe', with AI-generated commentary. Separately, Skyscanner launched an app in ChatGPT in February 2026 (UK and US) for natural-language flight search.
Cost: Free (No paid plan listed). Booking: Sends you to book elsewhere. Works on: Web, App in ChatGPT, Inside Skyscanner.
Best for: Undecided travellers looking for destination ideas with real fares attached, on Skyscanner or inside ChatGPT.
How Skyscanner Search with AI uses AI
AI interprets a free-text trip description, recommends destinations and adds AI-written insights next to live Skyscanner fares. In ChatGPT, the Skyscanner app returns live flight results from a chat request and adjusts them through follow-up messages.
Booking: Sends you to book elsewhere.
Keep in mind
- Beta; Skyscanner says results are for guidance only
- Explore with AI launched in English-speaking markets only
- The ChatGPT app launched in the UK and US only
- Skyscanner is a comparison site: you book with the airline or travel partner
Is Skyscanner Search with AI free? Cost and plans
Free. Free to search; you pay the airline or travel partner you book with.
Skyscanner Search with AI alternatives
Tools for a similar task. Sharing a task does not make them interchangeable, so compare what each one does.
Sources
Sources checked . This listing summarises what the provider and other cited sources say; it is not a hands-on test.
- AI Travel Search | Discover Your Next Trip With AI | Skyscannerskyscanner.com, checked . Supports: Beta label, natural-language 'tell us the vibe, when, and where' search, 'Powered by AI and for guidance only'
- AI discovery among new Skyscanner product releases (Travolution, 30 Jun 2026)travolution.com, checked . Supports: Explore with AI beta on the website, English-speaking markets, natural-language prompts, comparison on price/weather/duration/vibe with AI insights
- Skyscanner adds AI travel planning and flight tracking features (TTG Asia, 6 Jul 2026)ttgasia.com, checked . Supports: Explore with AI beta details; Drops fare alerts are a separate, non-AI feature
- Skyscanner launches app in ChatGPT for UK and US (Travolution, 27 Feb 2026)travolution.com, checked . Supports: Skyscanner app in ChatGPT, natural-language flight search, UK and US markets
What we could not confirm
- Skyscanner's earlier app-only AI tool, Savvy Search (2024), is not confirmed as live: its Skyscanner tips page now redirects to the homepage, and its relationship to Search with AI is not stated
- Whether Search with AI is available in the Skyscanner mobile app not confirmed
- No official Skyscanner page found for the ChatGPT app; details come from trade press
- Underlying AI model for Search with AI not disclosed