Lobbying by Skyscanner Limited

Skyscanner Limited

Global travel metasearch site.

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Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Daniel Attard (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Access Partnership

28 Nov 2025 · Sustainable Tourism Report, connectivity and event preparation call

Response to Digital Fairness Act

24 Oct 2025

Please see our comments in the attached file.

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Response to Digital package – digital omnibus

14 Oct 2025

Skyscanner welcomes the Digital Omnibus as a chance to simplify the EUs digital rulebook while maintaining strong privacy protections and user trust. As a priority, we recommend the EU update the legislative framework for tracking technology towards a risk-based approach that reduces consent fatigue, incentivises the use of privacy-enhancing solutions, and allows organisations to collect important information more easily where privacy impacts are low. Furthermore, the EU should make targeted changes to GDPR to curb documentation-heavy processes that divert resources away from tangible privacy outcomes, enabling outcome-based compliance pathways. Streamlining overlapping assessments and improving timeliness and consistency in enforcement will help improve certainty for businesses and consumers alike. Taken together, these steps will modernise Europes data protection and privacy frameworks, strengthen the EUs digital competitiveness, and enable companies to more easily scale compliance globally - all whilst ensuring robust protections for individuals. Our detailed position outlining arguments and proposed solutions is attached.

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Response to European Data Union Strategy

18 Jul 2025

As a data-driven company, we welcome the EUs ambition to improve data sharing capabilities, simplify the existing regime and its application, and accelerate data-led innovation. We have provided detailed feedback on many areas of the proposed strategy in the associated questionnaire, but more broadly consider that this is an opportunity to establish the EU as a competitive destination for the digital economy. In particular, we submit that the current data protection framework could be more consistent, effective, and performance-based, which would support businesses across the digital economy whilst effectively increasing protections for users. We have outlined how this can be achieved in the attached paper.

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Meeting with Daniel Boeshertz (Head of Unit Competition)

7 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on the online ticketing market.

Meeting with Polona Gregorin (Head of Unit Climate Action)

23 Jun 2025 · Discuss the climate impact of the proposal for multimodal digital mobility services (MDMS)

Response to Revision of EU rules on air services

9 Jun 2025

Skyscanner welcomes the European Commission's initiative to revise the Air Services Regulation and strongly supports modernisation efforts that enhance consumer choice and market competition. As a leading metasearch platform serving millions of European travellers, we understand the critical role that online travel intermediaries play in the air travel ecosystem by enabling consumers to compare prices transparently and access comprehensive flight options across multiple airlines. We are deeply concerned about the growing practice of certain airlines withholding content from indirect distribution channels, imposing discriminatory surcharges, and restricting access to fare, fee, and tax data, which directly contradicts Article 23 and undermines Recitals 15 and 16 of the current Regulation that guarantee consumers' right to compare prices effectively. The revised Regulation must explicitly prohibit channel-based discrimination by requiring airlines to provide non-discriminatory access to all fares, fees, and taxes across all booking channels, including metasearch engines and online travel agencies, without surcharges or technical restrictions. As such we recommend: - amending Recital 15 to state that consumers "should have access to all air fares and air rates irrespective of their place of residence within the Community and irrespective of the distribution channel chosen," - strengthening Article 23 to mandate that airlines transmit complete price breakdown datasets to any intermediary on a non-discriminatory basis through standardised APIs. Enhanced access to airline content would foster genuine competition, drive innovation in travel technology, reduce consumer search costs, and ensure that travellers can make informed decisions based on comprehensive market information rather than fragmented data controlled by dominant carriers. Current practices create an uneven playing field that risks unevenly benefitting large airline groups while harming smaller competitors and limiting consumer choice. We urge the Commission to include robust enforcement mechanisms and clear penalties for non-compliance to ensure that the revised Regulation delivers on its promise of transparent, competitive markets. Skyscanner stands ready to collaborate with the European Commission, Parliament, and Member States to create a regulatory framework that empowers consumers and strengthens fair competition. Please refer to our attached findings for more evidence and detail.

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Meeting with Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Member of the European Parliament)

19 May 2025 · Current challenges for a travel metasearch engine and marketplace

Meeting with Alex Agius Saliba (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Mar 2025 · Digital Markets Act implementation

Meeting with Aura Salla (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Mar 2025 · Digital policy and Skyscanner insights on DMA, prohibition on self-preferencing. How DMA could benefit businesses and consumers if enforced vigorously

Meeting with Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Mar 2025 · TRAN

Meeting with Liliane Karlinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Thomas Woolfson (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

29 Jun 2023 · Multimodal Digital Mobility Services proposal.

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

10 Dec 2020 · DSA, DMA

Meeting with Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)

28 Sept 2020 · Presentation of the companies activities and discussion on the Digital Service Act and other issues in the portfolio

Meeting with Gaëlle Michelier (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

10 Sept 2020 · Call to discuss the evolution of aviation files.

Meeting with Eric Peters (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

16 May 2018 · online platforms

Meeting with Joshua Salsby (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

22 Mar 2018 · Aviation issues

Meeting with Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)