NEW: Google Flight Explorer

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Where will you go next? Find out with Google Flight Explorer, the latest addition to Google Flights.


Unlike Google Flights, which launched in September 2011, Flight Explorer appears to be much more customizable. Not only does it let you easily modify your trip length on the left-hand side, but the top bar is full of options: stops, airline, duration, outbound time, and return time. The first two are drop down menus while the other ones are sliders helping you pick the timeframe you want.

The default page loads the “Lowest fares for trips of 3-5 days” and the outline is clearly something we haven’t seen before. There’s a picture of your destination and then a graph of the lowest prices to get you there, taking your filters into account, for the last few months.

Clicking on any of them redirects you to Google Flights, suggesting that this appears to be an augmentation of the previous service, not a replacement. Maybe the two will end up being merged together, but for now they remain separate. Either way, the goal appears to be getting you to stick to Google when looking for an online flight booking service that will help you purchase airline tickets.

“Flight Explorer is a an experimental feature of Flight Search that allow users to explore flight destinations,” a Google spokesperson told TNW. “The feature enables users to consider multiple destinations and multiple days at once, all using live prices, quickly.”

Source: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/13/google-tests-new-flight-explorer-service-to-help-you-buy-the-perfect-plane-ticket/

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  1. AndyDecember 29, 2012 at 11:38 AM

    Different fare of different categories like economy, first class, business and luxury class can be opted within your budget visiting the main website of airlines.

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