【 GOOGLE FLIGHTS 】▷ What is it and how does it work? ▷ 2022

Has it ever happened to you that when you type in the search engine “flights + departure city + destination city + flight company name”instead of taking you to their page or blog results and other websites where they talk about it, a flight service appears in the foreground that allows you to know the availability of dates and prices without having to enter any websitein the search results? This is Google Flightan application in which the giant company takes the leap.

As we will see, what we have just described is only a preamble, the true functionality, what makes this service something interesting and attractive for the user does require the access to the Google Flights site.

We are going to see what it is, what it offers us and how it does it, so that, without eating or drinking it, we find a much faster flight unification servicecomfortable and intuitive than any comparison page and that, in addition, with the passage of time, is offering more and more things.

Google Flights or Google Flights, find your plane tickets at the best price on the Internet

Let’s see what this novelty consists of, which is turning already established comparators upside down and, of course, users, who, we anticipate now, are delighted.

What is Google Flights?

Google Flightas we have been advancing, It is a flight comparison service, like so many that are currently on the net. In it, in a very simple way and with an interface that stems directly from the huge suite of services of the corporation, we will be able to make inquiries about flights between destinations of our interest on the dates we want. That is the essence; nothing special. Nevertheless, It has details that, little by little, improve the experience.

to google flights it is accessed with our Gmail account, so that all our searches and inquiries as well as reservations and purchases remain correctly stored in the cloud and we have access to all this from any device from which we log in.

Available options

You can choose between options One-way or return, the number of passengers, the type of ticket you want, the currency in which you want the prices to be shown…

Also you are informed of the recent destinations that have been consulted and you are given suggestions based on your previous budgets entered in other queries as well as in relation to the companies that most queries and destinations that may be of interest to you based on the personal information that Google obtains from you through its various services.

If you access the available map, you will see that, in addition to other parameters to filter flights such as price, the existence of stopovers, the company, the duration of the journeys, etc. we come across a world map that shows us examples of available tickets on the selected date from our location or point of origin that we choose.

Thus, we have, at a glance, a lot of interesting options, conveniently filtered, that allow us to know routes that we can take around the entire diameter of the planet. Once you are interested in a flight, you are given new options ranging from advice to displaying charts with prices that are a trend in trips with the characteristics introduced, comparison with prices in other nearby airports and the possibility of seeing how much the same ticket costs on another nearby date.

In addition, we will end up including among its interesting options the price trackingwhich allows you to create a list of flights in which you are interested and find out if their price increases or decreases when you visit them.

It is, without a doubt, a full-fledged service that, in addition to being light and fast, showing us results from all companies, makes suggestions and even gives us ideas of possible destinations with just a quick glance.

How to use Google Flights to search for cheap flights?

We are going to see what are the functionalities of this flight search engine, from the most basic and simple to carry out to those that add great value.

Choose your origin

Obviously, we start with the airport of origin which, thanks to its location, Google will default to the one closest to your location.

• However, if you’re doing a search for someone else or if you’re just not going to go from there, you can make the change without problem, clicked on the first box of the configuratorwhich includes a circle inside it.
• type the city from which you want to take the flight. You will be shown all the available options you can choose at your convenience.
• Press or click on the one you want that is your place of origin, from when you take the flight (or other means of transport until you reach the most convenient airport).

Choose your destination

As in the previous case, enter your place of destination in the second box, which is defined with a location point. You will see that, equally, you can choose, if possible, between several airports and other nearby stations and destinations recommended.

You can click on the map that you will see a little below. In it you will find prices of flights to different parts of the globe from the chosen origin. You can move through it and do the search, with the same parameters, but seeing the results here. this works to get an idea of ​​distances between flights to airports close to your origin and you may even be given an idea to do a climb that you never thought of.

Choose the characteristics of your flight

On the main boxes of airports and dates you will find three options that allow you to customize your flight.

• number of flights: You can choose one way, one way or return or fly from city to citycreating an itinerary in which you will add flights at will.
• Number of passengers. you can choose the number of adults, children aged 2-12 and infants both lap and seat. Essential to find out if the flights of your choice have all the seats you need.
• ticket class. This filter allows you to choose between type flights tourist, tourist premium, business or first class.

Select the available dates

Depending on the flight chosen, after the destination box you will have one or two more. These correspond to the date of departure (and return if any).

• Click on it to display a calendar in which you can move monthly.
• Choose the date of your choice.
• Click on “Clever”.
• If you have return flight you will have to do the same for the day of return.

Choice of your flight

1. With all the parameters entered, perform the search by clicking on “Search”.
2. you will find one screen with available flights ordered by price but You can use the filters in the upper area to discard or just doing checks. Go selecting to your liking. With all this, you will have reduced the total number of flights available, so that the ones that remain will be the ones that have the characteristics that you really want. You can:
   • Choose to change to other nearby dates.
   • Choose whether or not to make stopovers and how many as well as choose the maximum duration of these.
   • Select and deselect companies.
   • Set a maximum price.
   • Limit hours.
   • Select and deselect connection airports.
   • Choose the maximum duration of the flight.
   • Allow separate bills to be displayed.
3. Choose the one of your choice by pressing about him.
4. If you have a return flight you will have to do the same to consider your return. The screen is identical and appears automatically once you have clicked on the outbound flight you prefer.

Compare the prices of the reservations

One of the above options It is really interesting and deserves a separate mention. We are talking about the dates, first of the tabs once you have carried out the search. You can see, without delving into this option, without even choosing it, if there are cheaper flights on nearby days (you have a little notice on the tab).

If you click on this, a whole price comparison will be displayed in calendar (showing in green those that are really bargains), in graph and in relation to nearby airports; A real joy, really!

Price tracking to find the best bargain

Once you have chosen the itinerary with your preferences, you are given the option to make the reservation of those options that maintain your wishes. However, we also find something really interesting.

It is a option that allows us to track the itinerary created as is to discover when the lowest price is offered, informing you by email of the changes and giving you personalized advice.

Plan your day’s activities with Google Trips

It is the icing on an already succulent and delicious cake. Is is a travel app designed to have all the information on your next adventure at hand. This includes reservations for both flights and hotels, information on destination cities, important points, tips and aspects to consider, itineraries and discounts.

Discover the number of things it allows you to do:

• Everything you buy using your will be added automatically.
• Also, you can make tourist itineraries by selecting points on mapssomething that the application facilitates by giving you the schedules of the places to visit, so that it allows you to create a day of visits without surprises.
• Another logical aspect if we consider this is that allows us to know where we are in every moment.
• It will also tell you Where have you already been and where do you have to go?.
• It’s really interesting how complete his offline modewhich allows you to enjoy many of its options without consuming data, something essential if we travel to countries where roaming is not free.
• You can filter shows, tours and other entertainment based on various characteristics, including those near you.
• Very useful information is offered to you about phone numbers and addresses of various places you may need to contact.
• possibility of save venues to favoritesdetailing what visits we have made and where we have been.
• Grouping of reservation emails of the trip, so that they are more easily accessible when you are all together.
• All the information is saved, so that, after the trip, there is a memory that we can review.