SkyScholars is your gateway to affordable and eco-conscious flights. We partner with universities and airlines to ensure students travel for less, while reducing our shared carbon footprint.
We pool student demand and negotiate with airlines for lower group fares. The result? Cheaper tickets for you, guaranteed.
By coordinating with full aircraft capacity, we help airlines reduce carbon emissions per passenger. Travel with peace of mind.
Your school’s Office of Global Services can verify your student status to unlock deeper discounts and seat guarantees.
We align travel windows with academic calendars, so you can get home comfortably without missing crucial class days.
SkyScholars helps international and out-of-state university students save money, travel smarter, and reduce their environmental footprint—without lifting a finger. Here’s how we make it happen:
Instead of everyone booking their flights separately (and paying full price), SkyScholars aggregates travel data from students going to and from the same universities, around the same time. Using that info, we organize students into “tranches”—groups with shared travel windows and similar routes. Whether you’re flying from Seoul to Boulder or from Riyadh to Ann Arbor, you’ll likely be traveling around the same time as dozens of other students. We connect those dots.
Once tranches are formed, we go to airlines with real data—real names, real dates, real destinations—and negotiate on your behalf. Airlines love this because it guarantees them large volumes of passengers on specific flights. In return, they offer bulk booking discounts and special group rates, just like they do for large organizations and tour groups. These deals are often cheaper than what you’d find on travel search engines—and they come without the stress of trying to compare prices across 50 tabs.
After securing a deal, we post it to the SkyScholars platform. You’ll see your flight options along with the negotiated price—no hidden fees, no last-minute surprises. It’s straightforward, student-friendly, and built around your school calendar. We also make sure flights land close to your university and depart within common arrival or departure windows to make planning even easier.
When more students fly together on the same flights, planes fly fuller, and fewer flights are needed overall. This increases airline efficiency and significantly reduces the per-passenger carbon footprint. It’s a smart, scalable way to cut down on emissions from air travel—something traditional carbon offsetting programs can’t touch. This isn’t about planting trees after polluting the skies. It’s about flying smarter before emissions happen. That’s why we say: Fly Together, Breathe Better.
We partner directly with universities to become part of the onboarding experience for new students. That means every semester brings in a fresh group of travelers without us spending tons on ads—and without you needing to hunt us down. It’s low-cost, low-effort, and highly effective. At the same time, we continue to improve the experience using real feedback and booking data, fine-tuning routes and deals so that each semester’s offerings are better than the last.
At SkyScholars, we are transforming student travel into a sustainable, cost-effective experience. Our innovative model aggregates international student demand and negotiates bulk rates with airlines, ensuring higher seat occupancy and significantly lowering per-passenger emissions.
By partnering closely with universities, we secure a continuous flow of customers while reducing travel costs. This not only makes air travel more affordable for students but also contributes to a greener, cleaner environment.
We’re proud to work with leading institutions around the world to help students fly smarter.
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