Find Car-Hire Pickup and Drop-Off Locations
View all Skyscanner Flights & Travel Search endpoints →Autocomplete a rental pickup/drop-off place by required query, with optional market and locale. The observed Heathrow response contains locations with locationId, name, type, coordinates.lat/lng, countryName and iataCode. London Heathrow (LHR) returned locationId 95565050 and type Airport; another suggestion was Heathrow Terminal 5 station with type TrainStation and a blank iataCode. Distinguish airport and station results before saving a choice, and use the car-location result's own identifier in any compatible downstream integration. This operation resolves locations only: it does not return rental vehicles, availability, supplier offers, prices or reservations.
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/api/project/skyscanner/cars-search-location API Response (JSON)
{} curl -X GET 'https://api.opendata-api.com/api/project/skyscanner/cars-search-location?key=<API_KEY>&query=<query>&market=US&locale=en-US'
Query Result
Use Cases
- Build a rental-pickup selector that distinguishes London Heathrow airport from the Terminal 5 station suggestion.
- Attach a chosen pickup or drop-off location and its coordinates to an application-managed travel itinerary.
- Pass a selected location to a separate rental integration only after confirming that integration accepts the returned identifier format.
- Display a location confirmation step without implying a car, rental price or reservation has been found.
Frequently asked questions
Can car-hire location lookup return rental prices or create a reservation?
No. It resolves query into pickup/drop-off suggestions with locationId, type and coordinates, not vehicles, rental inventory, rates or orders. Use a separate compatible rental service for quotes and confirm that service accepts the selected location's identifier format.
How do airport and station suggestions differ, and is a blank IATA code valid?
Check type, name, countryName and coordinates. Tested suggestions included Airport and TrainStation types, and the station iataCode was blank. Do not judge validity solely from IATA or treat an airport and a nearby station as the same pickup point.