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How to use Google Flights: A guide to finding flight deals
The one tool I always mention when people ask me how to find deals on travel is Google Flights. This easy-to-use website can help you find the best possible price on airfare (and even hotels). It’s one the biggest weapons in our arsenal at The Points Guy to help save money on travel. While TPG does offer deal alerts, if you are looking for a particular flight, destination, airline or routing, Google Flights is the way to find personalized deals.
Google Flights is where I almost always begin my search for new bookings, and I come back to it, again and again, to book trips and see if prices have dropped and if I can get a better deal.
Here’s everything you need to know to use and master Google Flights.
What is Google Flights?
Google Flights is one of our favorite tools for finding deals on flights. It’s an amazingly powerful flight search engine, and the best part is that it’s easy to use. Google shows you nearly all available flights for a given search but doesn’t force you to book with them.
Unlike Expedia, Orbitz, Tripadvisor or Kayak, it’s not an online travel agency. Google is simply showing you what’s available. Once you find the flights you like, you “click through” to actually book. You can choose to book directly with the airline or via a third-party OTA, but not Google itself.
One frustrating note is that Google Flights does not show Southwest Airlines flights, so keep that in mind as you search.
Source: How to use Google Flights: A guide to finding flight deals – The Points Guy