JetRadar

What JetRadar does

JetRadar, doing business as Aviasales, is a private travel metasearch company founded in 2007 and operated through its legal entity Giant Travel Unicorn Two Limited, a Hong Kong corporation headquartered at Causeway Bay. The company's product is a flight and hotel comparison engine that aggregates inventory from airlines, online travel agencies, and ancillary booking partners; users apply filters to identify the cheapest options and are redirected to the partner's own website to complete the booking. Aviasales does not sell tickets directly and offers its search service free of charge to consumers, generating revenue through referral commissions paid by airlines and travel agencies for bookings completed downstream.

The core technology is a metasearch comparison engine that consolidates flight options across multiple sources into a single results surface, complemented by a mobile application that delivers price-drop notifications to drive re-engagement. Distribution is primarily organic: SEO-driven web traffic and mobile app installs, with email and push notifications serving as the main retention mechanisms. The stated customer segment is individual travelers seeking the lowest available fare; the company pursues a horizontal segmentation rather than vertical-specific targeting.

The business model is affiliate/referral economics at scale: every monetised interaction requires the user to complete a transaction on a partner site, making take-rate, click-out volume, and partner cookie-window quality the dominant revenue levers. Strategic activity captured in the data set is concentrated in 2011-2012, including acquisitions of Specavia.ru, CleverPumpkin, and BookMyBest, and a referral partnership with Booking.com that extended the platform from flights into hotel metasearch. There is no disclosed funding history, no current investor roster, and no reported revenue.

Name

JetRadar

Legal name

Giant Travel Unicorn Two Limited

Website

https://jetradar.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

JetRadar (operating as Aviasales) runs a free flight and hotel metasearch engine that compares options from airlines and travel agencies and redirects users to partners to complete bookings, serving individual travelers seeking the lowest fares.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Travel Metasearch

NAICS

Travel Agencies (561510)

akta.pro primary industry

Flights Metasearch & Airfare Comparison (THALAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Metasearch, Fare Aggregation & Referral Distribution (THABAJAL), Price Tracking, Alerts & Deal Discovery (Fare Prediction/Watchlists) (THALAEAJ)

Keywords

• Flight metasearch
• Airfare comparison
• Travel search engine
• Hotel metasearch
• Flight price tracking

Headquarters

HQ city

Hong Kong

HQ country

Hong Kong SAR China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Affiliate/Referral Revenue: JetRadar directs users to book flights on airlines' and agencies' websites and earns referral fees or commissions for completed bookings. The service is free to users, monetized through partner commissions rather than direct user charges.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

JetRadar operates the Aviasales flight and hotel metasearch platform, which aggregates fares and rooms from airlines, travel agencies, and accommodation partners so users can compare prices and options via custom filters. The service is free to consumers; users complete bookings on the partner's own website, and JetRadar earns referral commissions from airlines, agencies, and partners such as Booking.com. A companion mobile app extends the offering with price-drop alerts and on-the-go search.

Product overview

Aviasales operates as a flight metasearch platform that aggregates and compares flight options from multiple airlines and travel agencies. The core product is the web-based metasearch engine, complemented by a mobile application. The platform does not sell tickets directly; instead, it directs users to book through airlines' and agencies' websites. The company also offers hotel search functionality as part of its broader travel services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Aviasales Flight Metasearch Engine Web-based flight metasearch engine that aggregates flight options from multiple airlines and travel agencies, lets users apply filters to compare options, and redirects users to airline or agency websites to complete bookings. Targeted at individual travelers seeking the cheapest available fares.
• Aviasales Mobile App Mobile application that lets users search for cheap flight tickets and notifies them when tracked ticket prices drop, extending the Aviasales metasearch experience to mobile devices.
• Aviasales Hotel Search Hotel search functionality offered through the Aviasales platform, with referral integration to Booking.com to allow users to compare and book accommodation options.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AirlinescoreOthersJetRadar aggregates flight options from multiple airlines, allowing users to compare and book through the airline's own websites. Airlines provide inventory and pricing data to the platform.
• Travel AgenciescoreOthersPartner travel agencies provide additional flight inventory and booking options. Users are redirected to agency websites to complete bookings, with agencies paying referral fees for acquired customers.
• Booking.comminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorReferral partnership where JetRadar can redirect users to Booking.com for hotel bookings as a complementary service.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Kayak: Kayak is the most established flight and hotel metasearch engine, owned by Booking Holdings. It competes head-to-head with Aviasales on the same product category, redirecting users to airlines and OTAs for booking and earning referral commissions on identical economics.
• Skyscanner: Skyscanner is a leading global flight metasearch engine now owned by Trip.com Group. It operates the same compare-and-redirect model for flights and hotels as JetRadar/Aviasales and is one of the closest functional competitors worldwide.
• Momondo: Momondo is a flight and hotel metasearch engine owned by Booking Holdings (sister to Kayak). It directly competes with Aviasales on price-comparison and referral-driven booking across multiple geographies, particularly Europe.
• Kiwi.com: Kiwi.com is a flight search and booking platform that combines metasearch with virtual interlining. It overlaps directly with JetRadar on airfare comparison and low-price discovery, often cited for cheap-deal discovery in EMEA and emerging markets.
• CheapOair: CheapOair is a flight and hotel metasearch and OTA that aggregates fares and redirects users to partner airlines. It is comparable to Aviasales as a smaller-scale metasearch+redirect peer competing on deal discovery.

Broad incumbents

• Google Flights: Google Flights is a metasearch product embedded in Google's search ecosystem. While not a pure standalone metasearch business, it competes for the same flight-comparison intent and benefits from Google's dominant organic and paid search traffic, making it the largest incumbent pressure on standalone metasearch players.
• Booking.com: Booking.com is a global OTA that also offers flight and car-rental search. It overlaps with Aviasales on the broader online travel shopping journey and is also a referral partner, sitting both as a complement and a competitor depending on user intent.
• Trip.com: Trip.com (parent of Skyscanner and Ctrip) is a global online travel platform operating across flights, hotels, and packages. It is comparable through Skyscanner's metasearch angle and through its broad travel shopping marketplace that competes for the same flight search intent.

Regional players

• Wego: Wego is a flight and hotel metasearch engine primarily focused on the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. It is comparable to Aviasales by business model (metasearch + redirect) and competes in regions where Aviasales also has presence.

Emerging players

• Hopper: Hopper is a mobile-first travel app that combines flight and hotel metasearch with price prediction. It overlaps with Aviasales on cheap-fare discovery, push notifications, and price-prediction/alerts, particularly among mobile-native consumer segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/jetradar_com
• Facebookfacebook.com/JetRadar
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jetradar

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A3 records

Investments

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