Google flights

  1. How to find the best fares with Google Flights
  2. Track flights & prices


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How to find the best fares with Google Flights

Google Flights offers features to help you find the best fares for when you want to travel. When you search for flights, Google Flights automatically sorts the results by “Best flights,” an order that shows the best value by price, length, time of day, and other factors. But there are other tools you can use to find the best fare. How we rank "Best departing flights" These flights are ranked based on the best trade-off between price and convenience, including factors such as duration, number of stops and airport changes during layovers. We may also include non-stop itineraries from airlines for which we do not have price information, but these itineraries will always appear in the lowest position. To show you these results, Google Flights compares offers from over 300 travel partners, including airlines, online travel agencies and aggregators. Results may not reflect all available offers. Travel partners don't pay Google to appear in the list of flights, and the list order isn't influenced by Google's relationships with these partners. How we rank "Other departing flights" We rank these flights in ascending order of price. Itineraries without prices appear below all priced results. How we rank booking links The Google Flights link-ranking algorithm takes into account a few factors with different weights, like: • Whether the link has a price. • The price offered by the partner on Google Flights. • Whether the link is an airline or an OTA link. • Google’s data shows th...

Track flights & prices

When the price for a flight or route you're tracking changes significantly, you can get email updates. • Go to • At the top, choose the number of stops, cabin class, and how many tickets you need. • Choose your departure airport and destination. • To track prices for this route, turn on Track prices. • You can track prices for your searched dates or, if your travel dates are flexible, “Any dates.” • Optional: To track prices for a specific flight, choose your flights, then turn on Track prices. • Go to • In the top left, click Menu Tracked flight prices. • To find flights you’re tracking, click a saved route. • To turn tracking emails on or off, click Add notification . • Optional: To stop tracking a route or flight, click Remove . Get insights about price changes You also get a notification in Google Flights,an email, or a mobile notification when: • Prices for a route you’re tracking are likely to go up. • The current fare for a flight expires soon and the new fare is likely to cost more. This includes an estimate of how much prices are likely to go up and our confidence in each estimate.