What is Kayak?
Kayak is a travel search engine. They help people like you find travel products from travel suppliers all over the world. This means a better travel search experience, more complete search results and best of all, savings for you every day. If you use Kayak for your travel planning, you are going to save time and money.

What Kayak is not
Kayak is not a travel agency. With a travel agency, you pay a fee each time you make an airline reservation. There are no fees with Kayak. We do not sell airline tickets or hotel rooms or rental car reservations. Instead, we direct you to other travel sites where you can make these purchases directly. Our way of helping you plan your travel gives you a more comprehensive list of your travel options. Really fast. And with no biases or hidden agenda. In short, you are in control of your travel choices. Since we search hundreds of travel websites (including online travel agency sites), you now have to search only one: Kayak.

Go ahead ...run a search. See what Kayak finds for you.

So, how does Kayak make money

Kayak makes money when people click onto advertising on our website. Plus, we make money when people click on the results from our travel partners like airlines, hotels and rental car companies. This is a revenue model (for all of you MBAs) similar to that of Google. It's remarkable that many people believe that our model is an improvement over Google's because we actually get paid for advertising and results.

The bottom line for consumers, however, is that we are not trying to sell you anything. We give you objective, comprehensive travel information to use as you want. Then, you select the travel products you want to buy and you decide where to buy them.