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Google Debuts Flight Deals Beta, AI Natural-Language Search for Flexible Travelers

It interprets natural language trip descriptions to surface real-time fares from hundreds of airlines.

Illustration of how Google Flight deals would work
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Overview

  • Flight Deals is now available in beta across the United States, Canada and India with no opt-in required.
  • Flexible travelers can simply describe their desired trip in plain language instead of entering fixed dates and destinations.
  • Google retains the original Google Flights interface and adds an option to exclude basic-economy fares for trips in the United States and Canada.
  • Google did not specify which Gemini models or data sources power Flight Deals or fully detail its privacy safeguards at launch.
  • EU competition authorities are scrutinizing the rollout for potential self-preferencing under the Digital Markets Act.