Baidu, Skyscanner cooperate in travel sector

Baidu Inc, China's largest Web-search company, has made a deal to tap Skyscanner, a United Kingdom-based flight search engine, for travel information in the Chinese market, according to a Financial Times report.

The move comes two years after Baidu rival Google Inc bought flight-information software maker ITA Software, as Google ramps up its efforts in travel-related online searches.

Baidu will present Skyscanner's internationals flights results, which include more than 750 million airfares from about 900 airlines, when users search for such information.

Last year, Baidu bought a majority stake in Qunar.com, a Chinese online travel search engine, part of Baidu’s effort to expand its services in niche sectors. Baidu puts Qunar’s search results of Chinese domestic flights on its results pages.