Use Google to See If This Discounted Flight Is Really Good Value
These days, offers for flights and sales have begun to appear quite often. However, just because the flight is on sale does not mean that the sale price is actually a deal.
This week Google released new information on air fares. This won’t work for every flight, but for many flights you might be considering, Google can tell you if the flight is low, high, or typical of what it usually is.
So, hypothetically, if an airline offers a $ 500 ticket to Hawaii from your hometown, you can tell if it’s a huge discount from what the flight normally costs, or just what is advertised as a deal when it actually matches the average. price. price at this time of year.
For example, I was looking for a $ 528 flight to Hawaii to Honolulu. At the bottom of the screen, it is indicated that $ 528 is fairly typical for this flight and that the average cost for similar flights is between $ 465 and $ 710.
With this information in mind, I could go and order it. If Google instead said that the price was high, or if I were closer to the top of this “typical” cost window rather than the bottom, I might be looking at a different flight or adjusting my travel dates a bit.
In addition to basic information, you can also view the price history of a specific flight to better understand if the price is going up or down. It looks like if I had pulled the trigger on my flight to Honolulu about 45 days ago, I could have gotten it for about $ 425. This is good information for next time.