Find cheaper airfare with this new Google Flights feature

Oct 16, 2024

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Wishy Arora

Product Manager, Search

There are lots of ways you can save on travel with Google Flights — and now there’s one more you can add to your toolkit. Today we’re introducing a new feature that’ll make it even easier to get the lowest price for your next trip.

When you search with Google Flights, the best options appear at the top of the results, based on a mix of price and convenience. But sometimes, there might be cheaper options available for those of you who are willing to give up some convenience for the best deal. For example, there could be a third-party booking site offering a lower price than the airline itself. Or you might be able to save by flying back to a different airport that’s in the same city you departed from — like flying out of New York’s LaGuardia and returning to JFK.

To help you better find these deals, we’re adding a new “Cheapest” tab on Google Flights. Beginning this week, you can enter your trip details and tap on “Cheapest” to show more options with even lower prices. This update is rolling out globally over the next two weeks, wherever Google Flights is available.

You may find that some of the options under the “Cheapest” tab involve more…creative itineraries, like longer layovers, self-transfers or purchasing different legs of the trip through multiple airlines or booking sites. But for those times when cost matters more than convenience, the new tab gives you an easy way to see the lowest prices available and then decide for yourself what tradeoffs you want to make.

Whether you’re scoping out next year’s big vacation or planning a trip for the holidays, this upgrade should help you make the most of your travel budget. And speaking of holiday travel, our latest insights found that the cheapest fares for U.S. domestic trips around Thanksgiving and Christmas are usually bookable in October — so now is a great time to see what’s out there and get your plans squared away.