/skyscanner/flights/search

POST /api/skyscanner/flights/search

Price: 10 credits

Search Skyscanner flights between two places by entity id for a given date, cabin class and passenger count. Returns ranked itineraries with total price, per-agent booking prices and deeplinks, full leg and segment details (airports, departure/arrival times, duration, stop count), operating and marketing airlines, fare change/refund policy and an eco (CO2) contender delta. For round trips also pass a return date. Origin and destination are Skyscanner place entity ids (resolve them via the places autosuggest).

How to use it

Search flights between two Skyscanner place entity ids (origin, destination) for a depart_date (and optional return_date for round trips), cabin_class, adults and child_ages. Returns ranked itineraries with id, price (raw, formatted), score, eco_contender_delta, fare_policy, legs (origin, destination, departure, arrival, duration_minutes, stop_count, marketing/operating carriers, segments with flight numbers) and pricing_options (per-agent name, rating, price and booking url).

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• origin string required — Origin place entity id (examples: "27537542"; pattern: ^\d+$)
• destination string required — Destination place entity id (examples: "27544008"; pattern: ^\d+$)
• depart_date string required — Outbound flight date (format: date; examples: "2026-08-15")
• return_date string nullable — Return flight date for round trips; omit for one-way (format: date; examples: "2026-08-22")
• cabin_class string — Cabin class (default: "ECONOMY"; one of: "ECONOMY", "PREMIUM_ECONOMY", "BUSINESS", "FIRST")
• adults integer — Number of adult passengers (default: 1; min: 1; max: 8)
• child_ages array — Ages of child passengers (0-17) (default: [])
• count integer required — Max number of itineraries to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "SkyscannerItinerary")
• id string required
• price object nullable
  • @type string (default: "SkyscannerPrice")
  • raw number nullable
  • formatted string nullable
• score number nullable
• eco_contender_delta number nullable
• is_self_transfer boolean nullable
• is_protected_self_transfer boolean nullable
• is_mashup boolean nullable
• has_flexible_options boolean nullable
• fare_policy object nullable
  • @type string (default: "SkyscannerFarePolicy")
  • is_change_allowed boolean nullable
  • is_partially_changeable boolean nullable
  • is_cancellation_allowed boolean nullable
  • is_partially_refundable boolean nullable
• legs array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SkyscannerLeg")
  • id string nullable
  • origin object nullable
    • @type string (default: "SkyscannerPlace")
    • code string nullable
    • entity_id string nullable
    • name string nullable
    • city string nullable
    • country string nullable
  • destination object nullable
    • @type string (default: "SkyscannerPlace")
    • code string nullable
    • entity_id string nullable
    • name string nullable
    • city string nullable
    • country string nullable
  • departure string nullable
  • arrival string nullable
  • duration_minutes integer nullable
  • stop_count integer nullable
  • day_change integer nullable
  • marketing_carriers array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "SkyscannerCarrier")
    • id integer nullable
    • name string nullable
    • code string nullable
    • image string nullable
  • operating_carriers array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "SkyscannerCarrier")
    • id integer nullable
    • name string nullable
    • code string nullable
    • image string nullable
  • segments array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "SkyscannerSegment")
    • origin object nullable (see schema SkyscannerPlace)
    • destination object nullable (see schema SkyscannerPlace)
    • departure string nullable
    • arrival string nullable
    • duration_minutes integer nullable
    • flight_number string nullable
    • marketing_carrier object nullable (see schema SkyscannerCarrier)
    • operating_carrier object nullable (see schema SkyscannerCarrier)
• pricing_options array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SkyscannerPricingOption")
  • agent_id string nullable
  • agent_name string nullable
  • agent_rating number nullable
  • price number nullable
  • booking_proposition string nullable
  • url string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No flights found for the given route, date and passenger combination Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.