No, the service is not designed to be used in that way. The service will provide intelligent caching within the Skyscanner infrastructure, and will always return results quickly if there are relevant results in the cache.
08-21-2025 Skyscanner Website Outage Resolved
We can confirm that our internal teams have investigated and resolved the issue that was responsible for the degradation of our Skyscanner Website and corresponding data. While the issue is resolved, some systems and data are still stabilizing and will do so over the next hours ,and days.
We thank you for your patience and ask that you please reach out to us if you are unable to see signs of recovery in the next 4 hours.