Kayak is launching in Spain

So there is now a Kayak Espana... It shouldn't come as a surprise, really. They already have the UK, German, and French sites out of beta. Some thoughts:

  1. This will be good news for the folks at Trabber. The entry of a big American player will likely attract more media attention to the product of a travel aggregator, and some of this attention should spill over to Trabber, as they are the 'local version'.
  2. I'm very pleased, because Kayak is the only search engine I know that has a great service for multi-leg flights.
  3. Finally, I find it interesting that after the UK, France, and Germany, the next country site to be rolled out is Spain and not Italy or Netherlands or Sweden. It seems to me that Spain is really becoming a tier-1 market, one that simply can't be ignored by any company with a "Europe strategy". Growing from 40 to 45 million in population in a decade, in a continent with shrinking populations certainly helps.

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