YOGYAKARTA – Have you ever used Google Flights to find plane tickets? This search platform can help tourists find plane tickets across airlines, airports, and destination dates. After understanding the features, the next step is to find the desired flight. Check out how to find plane tickets through Google Flights below.
Google Flights, which is supported by the ITA Matrix, has an interface that users easily navigate. You can start the flight search process by entering the departure city, destination, and travel date. After that, a suitable flight list will appear.
Preliminary results are usually sorted based on a combination of several factors, such as prices, duration, and number of stops. This combination serves to display the best choice first. However, tourists can also sort based on each of these factors.
If you have certain preferences, for example airlines, you can take advantage of filters to narrow the list of available flights. When you want to order, Google Flights will direct to various sites.
Sophia Lin, director of product management at Google, revealed that users will not actually order directly through Google Flights, because Google Flights is a flight search engine, not an online travel provider agent.
One of the best ways that can be done to save flight costs is to be flexible with departure airports and/or arrivals. Google Flights allows to include multiple airports in one search. However, you can also include more airports manually in the search for a wider selection.
“Just add your first airport in the search box, then press the plus symbol to add additional airports as desired. That way, you can mix and match the airport to get the best offer,” Lin said.
Lin added that users can also customize the search further by selecting “multi-city” instead of “round-trip”. So that users can specify the destination airport for each part of the trip.
Tourists can monitor aircraft ticket prices via Google Flights. By activating price tracking for specific destinations and travel dates, if the plane ticket price drops drastically, tourists will receive an email notification. Including for certain flights, tracking the price for the route without specifying a date, which makes it possible to take advantage of the best offering throughout the year.
You can view and manage the tracking flight price by tapping the menu at the top left of the page and selecting ‘Tracked Flights Price’, Lin said.
For those of you who want to save on flight costs, there are several things that must be considered when operating Google Flights. Starting from choosing travel times in the quiet season, for example in the middle of the week. Don’t forget, Google Flights displays basic economic rates. Because the tariff class is very limited, you have to be prepared if the price becomes slightly higher for the standard economic rate booking.
Don’t forget to also check the price of baggage, because some airlines, especially low-cost airlines, may offer cheaper flights but set high costs for registered baggage or even cabin baggage.
As for those of you who care about the environment, Google Flights also shows an estimated carbon footprint for almost every flight in search results, right alongside the price and duration of the flight. Including whether the emission is higher or lower than the average for that route.
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