February 5th, 2013
Google Flights Is Now Searchable By Region!
Google.com/flights can now tell you where you can go and for what price on your travel dates.
For example you can search from NYC to the “United States” or to “Europe.” You can then zoom in to see more detail or zoom out to view more cities across the globe.
While Google won’t sell you the flight you can just plugin the info on a site like Orbitz or Priceline and book it there.
How cool is that?!?
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February 5th, 2013 at 2:19 am
Extremely cool!!! Thanx Dan!
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February 5th, 2013 at 2:25 am
Tried checking from israel-says “sorry not currently supported”
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February 5th, 2013 at 3:18 am
This is so coollllllllllllllll. thx dan!!
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February 5th, 2013 at 5:03 am
Thanks for the tip. It supports a search from my home airport to the Caribbean. At this point of the year, I just want to go someplace warm, don’t care where. It’ll be really useful for planning an escape from the cold.
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February 5th, 2013 at 6:40 am
How is this different than just leaving the “to” blank and looking at Europe on the map?
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February 5th, 2013 at 8:11 am
Maybe Google will integrate a mileage search feature soon too!
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February 5th, 2013 at 9:08 am
Israel works now, just tried it.
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February 5th, 2013 at 9:10 am
oops you’re right, only to israel, my bad.
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February 5th, 2013 at 9:23 am
I just booked tickets to chicago, what a breaze , another breeze of a google product.
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February 5th, 2013 at 10:50 am
I was going to post that, shoot! This is great…wonder if they can do that for awards;-)
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February 5th, 2013 at 2:02 pm
This has been around for a while.
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February 5th, 2013 at 3:24 pm
not new at all, i use it already for months, but never mind other people may use it also, Dan you’re the best!
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February 5th, 2013 at 3:25 pm
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February 5th, 2013 at 3:46 pm
@Yitzy:
I never said Google Flights was new.
The ability to write “Europe” or “Asia” appears to be new.
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February 5th, 2013 at 3:57 pm
@ Dan
But the map feature was always there, and you were always able to pick an origin and search the map for cheap destinations in Europe. You just weren’t able to do this by typing “Europe” in the destination box.
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February 5th, 2013 at 4:02 pm
“flights from israel are not currently supported”
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February 5th, 2013 at 4:03 pm
@sara: FROM israel to the US does not work…
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February 5th, 2013 at 4:16 pm
I like this feature https://www.google.com/flights/explore/ which lets you select how many days you want to go for and a region and it will tell you the prices with a view of the calendar so you can scroll around and see when it is the cheapest to go. It does let you select an alliance but it doesn’t work great as it will include non alliance partners as long as there is one partner e.g. select OW and it might show a american feeder flight with a turkish longhaul which defeats the purpose
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February 5th, 2013 at 5:16 pm
any good flights from argentina to the usa ???
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February 5th, 2013 at 10:35 pm
hey dan my i wanted to fly to paris with my wife and 10 month old son on mar 3 to the 10 i have 175000 amex points and 70k saphire prefferd whats the best way to use them
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February 6th, 2013 at 12:54 am
you dont need to type europe or united states etc just type the origin and zoom in to what u want..
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February 6th, 2013 at 9:40 am
It won’t let me search multi city