Overview
- Google announced Thursday that AI Mode in Search now offers conversational flight price tracking that pulls fares from more than 300 partner airlines and travel sites and sends an email when tracked prices change.
- AI Mode can show the cost of flights and hotels in loyalty points or miles using data from participating programs, with the points view available globally at launch for an initial set of airlines and hotel chains.
- Hotel booking is beginning to roll out in the United States in English through a 'Continue on Google' flow that finishes payment with Google Pay while the named hotel or booking platform remains the merchant of record and handles customer service.
- Several major loyalty programs and some hotel chains are not included at launch, Google says it will add partners in the coming weeks, and features are restricted in certain markets including the European Economic Area.
- The update builds on Google Flights price alerts and past in‑search checkout experiments and could shift more booking intent and conversions into Google’s conversational layer, which may affect how travelers earn loyalty credit and how OTAs and hotel marketers buy visibility.