If you"ve ever been responsible for planning a trip before, you"ve likely referred to Google a lot to organize the perfect itinerary. A major component of this process is often visiting the Google Flights portal to find airlines and flights which offer you the best bang-for-your-buck ratio. Now, Google is planning on making this flight-searching process even better, thanks to AI (of course).
Rather than playing around with finnicky filters for dates, destinations, and airlines on Google Flights, you will soon be able to leverage the Flight Deals portal, which will enable you to plan your trip through natural language prompts.
Google claims that Flight Deals is designed to save travelers their money, but it will also save time as you"ll be able to find a desirable plan sooner. Some examples of the prompts that you can use are "week-long trip this winter to a city with great food, nonstop only" or "10 day ski trip to a world-class resort with fresh powder", and Flight Deals will surface the most relevant options at economical rates.
Flight Deals is a powerful utility because it builds upon the existing knowledge base present in Google Flights, and then leverages AI understand your natural language query to tap into relevant results that are closest to your desired trip location. This means that you may also get options that you hadn"t even considered.
It is important to note that there are currently no plans to replace Google Flights with Flight Deals in the future. It merely acts as an add-on in a portal that is separate from Google Flights. In fact, Google is adding new features to Google Flights to make it more enticing to users too.
Flight Deals will begin rolling out as a beta in the United States, Canada, and India next week. It will be available automatically, and there is no opt-in or opt-out configuration that you need to worry about. Simply head over to the Flight Deals page here to begin planning your trip once the tool becomes available. There is no word on general availability or expansion to other countries yet, though.