If you are someone whobelieves choosing your vacation destination involves a lot more than using adart and a globe, welcome to the club of millions of happy Skyscanner usersacross the world. We help you carefully select a destination that will exciteeveryone in your family equally and fit your holiday budget as well. Ourinteractive and extremely resourceful maptoolwill assist you through your hunt to find the ideal destination with cheapflight fares and give you an option to view multiple flight route maps. Thistool gives you access to flight prices for local as well as internationaldestinations with customisable search options and a use-friendly interface. What’snot to love?
Features of Flight Route Map:
- Flight prices for all the destinations (domestic and international) in a map view with single click
- Price filter to see the destinations fitting your budget. Be surprised to see one of your dream destinations with an unimaginable low flight price
Howto use Skyscanner’s Maps tool?
To start using thistool, click on ‘Map’ at the top right of Skyscanner India’s website.
Once you do that, thetool will automatically pick up your default departing location (of course youcan change it if you wish to!) and treat you with a visually-appealinginteractive image with various flight route map options marked in green or redalong with many flight prices. The destinations marked in green indicate locationsaccessible by direct flights and those in red indicate indirect flight access.
If you want to viewflight rates for those destinations which have only a dot next to their names,all you need to do is hover your cursor around the name and voila! The flightrates will be displayed.
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Once you select aparticular destination and click on it, you will be able to alter the number ofdays you plan to travel and select a departure date with the help of aday-to-day chart of prices. Plus, you will be able to filter out only directflights and get tips on the cheapest days to fly on!
ThePrice Feature
Now that we haveexplained how you can choose your next vacation destination based on the flightroute map that suits you the most, let us come to the best feature of the maptool – the price range. While using this tool, you can select the price range ofone return ticket and see your destination options based on that. For example,if you do not intend to spend over INR16,000 per person on the flight ticket,you can select that number on the map tool and see the vacation destinationoptions that fit that budget.
So, in INR16,000 youcan travel to Kathmandu or Bangkok, apart from a number of local destinations,in December! A cool way to find your ideal vacation spot, isn’t it?
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Once you decide thenumber of days, all you need to do is click on the green button which will takeyou to the flight options page.
While using this tool,you need to remember that the prices displayed are the estimated lowest pricesrecorded in the last two weeks. So, keying in all your details is necessary tosee the exact live prices.
Skyscanner’s map toolalso comes handy when you are already at a destination away from home and areplanning to make a short trip from there. For example, if you are vacationingin Bali and want to explore your possible weekend trips around, all you need todo on the map tool is set your departing destination as Bali and the rest willfall in place.
So, all in all, the maptool is super convenient and beneficial while planning a vacation. You could beanyone – a family looking to make special memories, a couple searching for aromantic location or a solo traveller waiting to bump into adventure – thistool, with its flight route displays, price averages and impressive userinterface, will be your favourite holiday planning assistant in a blink.
Oh, and don’t forget touse Skyscanner’s other convenient tools such as Month View and Price Alerts.With our ‘Cheapest Month’ feature, you will be able to access a particular datein your desired travel month when the airfare is the cheapest. You just need totype in the departure and arrival points and instead of filling in specificdates, select the ‘Cheapest Month’ option. Once you hit the Search flights button,you will be able to access the air fares for the entire month in calendar orchart format. While using price alerts, all you need to do after you have keyedin the exact airports and travel dates on the Skyscanner website or app, is to clickon the ‘Get Price Alerts’ button and enter your email id. You will receive anemail each time the price of your chosen flight increases or decreases. Isn’tit an amazing way to tackle the ever-changing flight prices?
Cannot wait to startplanning your next vacation? Go ahead and book your flights, hotel or rent a car with Skyscanner today. You can do all ofthese on our mobile apptoo. Bon voyage!
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