A Guide to Google Flights
A Guide to Google Flights
Are you looking for cheap flights? Happily, for travelers, there are lots of ways to find discounted airfares. One way is with Google Flights, a powerful tool for searching out the best deals on flights. Let’s take a look at how it works, how to save money with Google Flights and the different ways to maximize it.
Google Flights
How to use Google Flights
On the surface, Google Flights seems pretty simple to use — and it is. Anyone can navigate to the site, input their search information and receive results. For example, we used Google Flights to search for a one way ticket from Denver to LAX. But you can also search for roundtrip or multi-city itineraries on Google Flights, as well as business class tickets.
When you do this, Google will show the flights it thinks are best, whether that means they’re the fastest, the cheapest or some other combination of factors.
You can stop there if you’d like. Once you’ve selected the flights you prefer, Google will either take you to a booking site or allow you to book directly within its platform.
Filtering options
There are a variety of ways that you can filter the search results. You can filter by:
· Price
· Stops
· Airlines
· Bags
· Times
· Emissions
· Connecting Airports
· Duration
How to set up an alert
You can even set up an alert that will alert you when the price drops. Typically if the cash priced drops, so will the points. When you toggle the track prices button. You get a pop up saying you will receive price alert emails for the dates you selected
How to use the Google Flights Explorer
Do you have some flexibility in your travel? Are you just trying to figure out somewhere to go? A great feature of google flights is the Explorer option, which can be found on the top of the Google Flights page.
This tool allows you to set extra flexible parameters for a trip. Say, for instance, you’d like to take a week-long vacation within the March and you only want to fly business class.
Input all this information and a Google Flights map will pop up, showing you all your available options.
Like standard Google Flights, the Explorer tool also has a variety of filters. This includes the ability to sort by airlines, price, duration and even airline alliances, making this a powerful instrument for those looking to earn elite status with airlines.