When you use Google Flights to find plane tickets, you can get the best fares for where and when you want to travel. Use Google flights to:
- Find and book round-trip, one-way and multi-city tickets.
- Use an interactive calendar and price graph to find the best fares.
- Filter your flight search by cabin class, airline and number of stops.
Google Flights allows you to book flights from more than 300 airline and online travel agency partners. These partnerships have no impact on the ranking of offers suggested to you.
Find your flights
- Go to Google Flights.
- Enter your departure city or airport and destination.
- Tip: You can also find destinations by clicking a popular destinations list or a world map.
- At the top, select your ticket type: one-way, round-trip or multi-city.
- At the top, select the number of passengers and cabin class.
- Click the calendar to select your flight dates. You'll see the lowest total price to fly for each day.
- Tip: Flight prices are updated approximately once every 24 hours.
- Optional:
- To filter your results, click Stops, Airlines, Times or More.
- To reorder flights, click Sort by . You can find results by Top flights (a default order that gives you the best trade-off between price and convenience, based on factors such as duration, number of stops and airport changes during stopovers), Price, Duration and Departure time.
- Choose a flight for each part of your trip.
- Choose how you'll book the flight:
- When you click Select for your ticket(s), you'll usually be taken to the airline's website or online travel agency to complete the transaction.
- In some cases, you can book separate or self-transfer tickets for one trip.
- Once you've booked a flight, contact the airline or online travel agent to confirm your booking, change it, cancel it or to resolve any issue that may arise.
For more information, refer to the airline or online travel agent's Terms and Conditions on their site.
Tip: If your flight can't be booked online, you'll find instructions to book over the phone.
Flight insights
After searching for your tickets, 'Flight insights' gives you options to optimise your travel experience.
Tips: Find recommendations for when to book your ticket, cabin upgrades, travel guides and more.
Dates: Explore which travel dates have the best fares.
Airports: Show fares for alternative airports.
Price graph: If your travel dates are flexible, explore fare trends by month or week.
Book separate or self-transfer tickets for one trip
You can buy flights as separate or self-transfer tickets from one or more partners. These options might appear when they could save you money or open more flight schedules.
Instructions to buy separately or as self transfers
If tickets can be bought in a single transaction from an airline or online travel agency, click the link to go to their website.
Otherwise:
- Click the link for each ticket and double-check the price.
- Once you've confirmed that all tickets are available, proceed to buy them one by one. If any of the tickets can't be bought and you are in the US, in most cases you can call the airline to take advantage of its 24-hour refund policy to cancel the ticket(s) that you've already bought.
Tips:
- If you need to make changes, you might be charged a change fee for each ticket.
- Each airline has different luggage rules and fees.
- Buying separate tickets from different airlines or self-transfer tickets may require claiming and rechecking luggage, which takes additional time so plan accordingly.
- If your outbound trip is delayed, for example in the event of a stopover or multi-city trip, you might miss your second trip. To find out about your options, contact the airline.
Why some flights aren't included
Google Flights uses over 300 partners, like airlines, online travel agencies and aggregators, to display its offers. Not all airlines or available flights are included, as a partnership with Google is required. Most of these partners provide Google with all the prices and flight options that they would show on their own websites or through third-party sites. This ensures that you get a complete view of the flights and prices that match your search, without the need to check prices on multiple sites.
Some flights might not show up when:
- The flights are sold out or unavailable
- The carrier hasn't yet been added to Google Flights
About luggage fees, prices and more
The price shown is only for the passenger air transport service itself and includes VAT/GST and airport taxes. Additional fees may apply (luggage, credit card, etc.). The fees may vary depending on the airline or online travel agency option chosen. Any estimated luggage fees shown may be subject to additional government taxes.
If you notice a price discrepancy after you've selected your flight, use the feedback button in the lower left-hand corner of the screen when searching on Google Flights.
Specific or additional insurance and/or commercial warranties may be offered by the carriers. For more info, please visit the carrier's website.
Related resources
- Track flights and prices
- Filter flight prices by luggage fees