✈ Google Flights (2024)

FAQs

How to search flexible dates on Google Flights? ›

Next to Dates, you can select the See calendar of lowest fares option to find the lowest fares available within a 30 day period. Enter a value of zero within the Duration (nights) field for same-day travel. Enter a range with a dash if your plans are flexible, such as 7-9 for a trip of about a week.

Google Flights allows you to book flights from more than 300 airline and online travel agency partners.

To change your currency, location, or language: Go to Google Flights. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and find the drop-down menus for language, location, and currency. To choose a language, click Language and make a selection.

Click on a hotel to view more details and book directly through Google or a booking platform. To book a flight, search for airports near your destination, select an airport, and compare flight options. Click on a flight to view details and book through the airline's website or a booking platform.

As previously mentioned, booking airfare on Sunday is cheaper than other days of the week, especially Fridays. Be willing to fly mid-week. Since Thursdays tend to be the cheapest day to fly, see if you can tweak your travel plans so you depart and fly home during the week instead of on weekend days. Set price alerts.

When comparing July 2024 prices versus July 2023, U.S. airfares are down 7.1%. And when compared to pre-pandemic prices, airfares are also down — by an even larger margin of 8.2%. That's pretty staggering, considering average prices as a whole are up by 22.6% since July 2019.

Google Flights is a reliable, legitimate, and trustworthy site for flight searching. In general, its prices are accurate and reflect the same prices as you'll find on the airline websites and other OTAs. However, in rare instances, Google Flights prices are wrong, or more accurately, the price info is outdated.

You can find cheap flight deals to anywhere in the world on Google Flights. Just enter your departure city, choose Anywhere as the destination, and select Explore. You can pick specific dates or leave departure and return dates blank if your plans are flexible. The cheapest fares to popular destinations will appear.

Google Flights is a flight booking search engine and an excellent travel planning tool. It lets users find and compare flights from more than 300 airline and online travel agency partners.

Google Maps will show you the currency that's native to the region you're located in, so you'll have to change your region. When you look up hotels, gas stations, or other businesses, Google Maps will show you their current prices using whichever region you have set.

Why is my currency wrong on Google? ›

Why does the Google converter give the wrong value of currency? Google is getting its data from a number of providers of financial data reporting the “official” exchange rather than the real or unofficial exchange rate, which in countries with closed economies often is extremely different from the “Official” rate.

Google Flights partners with over 300 airlines, online travel agencies and aggregators to obtain flight offers. A partnership with Google is required, so not every airline or online travel agency is represented. Some airlines only display a subsection of their flights on Google Flights.

Demand is outpacing supply

While, yes, airplane production has slowed down, fleet sizes are still increasing—in other words, airlines now have more planes than they did last year. However, demand for travel is still higher in the summer months. High demand + lower supply = higher fares.

Southwest didn't list its fares for sale through Google or almost any other site by design: It didn't want to put loyalty in the hands of an intermediary. Previously, the only option to book Southwest flights was directly on the airline's website or app.

Flexible flights are those which allow for changes or cancellations after the purchase has been made. By purchasing a flexible flight, also known as flexi flights or open tickets, travelers are able to change travel dates or even cancel last-minute for no fee or a smaller fee than with regular airline tickets.

The date grid is similar to the calendar view but is more compact and easy to read. Highlighted green fares show what combination of dates results in the cheapest fare. Red highlights the highest fares. Use the arrows at the top to adjust the departure date or on the side for return dates.

Utilize our 'Show flexible dates' feature on Expedia to compare prices for different dates, and you may find deals when such offers are present.

What Skyscanner is good at: Flexible dates searching. Skyscanner makes it easy to see when there are better, cheaper flight options available to and from your destination. Their “cheapest month” option for searching allows users to view the fares for the cheapest month from their chosen departure to their destination.