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Aviasales emerged on November 29, 2007, as a personal blog about bargain airfares. Back at the time, the website owner co-operated only with one editor, which received all money from advertisement revenue from the website ($30–50 per month). Soon after, more software developers were engaged in order to implement a search algorithm. First search engine for Aviasales was developed by Anton Kirillov, who left the company due to financial struggles of Kalinov.

After it developed into a travel service in 2008, the first ticket to be booked through Aviasales was for a flight from Moscow to Paris. By 2012, Aviasales exceeded 2 million monthly active users.

That year, the company launched a travel search engine for the Chinese market, called ifeiso.com.

However, the project closed down within a year.

In 2014, VC firm iTech Capital invested 10 million dollars into Aviasales. The travel metasearch brings in more than 4 million monthly unique visitors, making more than 500,000 search

queries for tickets per day.

In 2019, Aviasales began a strategic partnership with Booking.com.

In 2020, as an immediate response to COVID-19, Aviasales introduced a 'remote first' policy for its

Products and services

The Aviasales mobile application for iOS was launched in May 2012. The company released a version for Android in the following year.

In 2013, the service introduced an interactive map that helps users search for the cheapest flights.

In July 2016, Aviasales launched a chatbot for messengers such as Slack, Facebook, Viber, and Telegram. The chatbot allows users to choose departure and destination cities, as well as the month and duration of the trip, and updates users when ticket prices increase or decrease.

Aviasales introduced baggage selection in its search results in 2017, claiming to be the first company to offer this feature. Baggage policies are highlighted for each individual airfare, and users can search for and select fares with or without checked baggage.