If you’re planning your vacation and are looking for the best websites to find cheap flights , the answer to what you’re looking for may be on Google itself. The Internet giant has the Google Flights tool , an integrated flight search engine that has some tricks that will help you fly at a cheaper price.
In principle it is very easy to use, but just as there are ways to find flights at the best price on Skyscanner for Android, there are also ways to carry out your searches on Google Flight so that the trip to your dream destination is as cheap as possible .
- Choose the type of flight you want
- Check price history
- Choose the best date for your trip
- Use the filters
- Activate alerts on price developments
Choose the type of flight you want
Most airlines allow you to choose the type of ticket you want to buy. Although you usually want to travel in economy class if you are looking for cheap flights, you may be considering traveling in Business or First class and want to find the cheapest price within that category. If you want to choose what type of ticket you want to buy, all you have to do is click on the arrow next to the word Economy . There you will be able to find the different types of tickets , and select only those that interest you.
If we click on the person-shaped icon next to it, we can also choose whether we are looking for an adult ticket, a child ticket , a baby ticket with its corresponding seat, or a baby ticket that can travel on its parents’ lap.
So, while many travel apps offer us only one type of standard ticket, in Google Flights we can select the one that interests us .
Check price history
We all know that flight prices change over time . And Google Flights allows us to easily find out if flights to the place we want are currently cheap, expensive or at a normal price. To be sure of this, when we perform a search we will have to click on See price history . It will then show us a graph in which we can see the current price of the flight, as well as the prices it has had in recent days. This way we will know if it is a good time to make our purchase or if on the contrary it is better not to buy now.
It will also tell you whether the current price is normal, high or cheap . So, if you see that at the time you are going to make your purchase the price is higher than usual, you can always wait to buy at another time to make sure you buy as cheaply as possible.
Choose the best date for your trip
If you have a certain amount of flexibility when choosing your travel dates, you may be interested in finding out the price of tickets each day, so you can plan your departure and arrival on the cheapest possible date. To do this, when you have searched for a flight, you must click on the Date table button that you will find just below the search engine. There you will be able to see the price of the same route in the three days before and after the one you first searched for. This way, you will be able to see if there is a big difference in price between traveling on one date or another.
If we have decided that we prefer to travel on another date , we will only have to click on the box in the table where the flight we are interested in is located and then click on Accept. This will take us directly to the search screen for that specific date, so that we can continue shopping on the new date.
Use the filters
Google Flights also has a series of filters that will allow you to choose only the flights that suit your needs. This way, you can choose flights from a specific airline or at a specific time so that the search results are tailored to what you want.
The baggage filter is especially interesting , as it will help you find the cheapest flight depending on whether you have suitcases or not.
You can apply several filters at the same time . For example, you can request the results of a flight between Madrid and Jerez, which leaves after 9am, is operated by Iberia and on which you have one carry-on bag and one checked bag. Instead of showing all the flights between the two cities that day in the search results, only those that meet the search criteria you have entered will appear. This means that if you have specific needs, the search for your flight will be carried out taking them into account.
Activate alerts on price developments
Finally, if you don’t want to have to keep checking Google Flights to see if the flights you’re interested in have dropped in price, you can ask Google to send them to your email . To do this, you’ll have to go to the Track Prices section , which you’ll find just below the filters. There, you’ll see that you can find two sliding buttons . In the first one, you can ask Google to send you the evolution of prices in the week in which you first searched, while in the second, it will send you the prices of flights on any date.
If you have these buttons activated, you will receive information regarding the flights that interest you in the email address associated with the Google account with which you are logged in at the time you are performing the search.