Google rolls out its AI ‘Flight Deals’ tool globally, adds new travel features in Search

Google is rolling out new AI-powered options to guide and plan journey in Search, the corporate introduced on Monday. The tech large is increasing availability for its AI-powered “Flight Offers” software, including the power for customers to prepare journey plans with its “Canvas” software in AI Mode, and launching agentic reserving capabilities to extra individuals.

Google first launched Flight Offers again in August within the U.S., Canada, and India. Now, the corporate is increasing the AI-powered search software inside Google Flights globally to assist individuals shortly discover reasonably priced locations.

To get began, customers want to explain the place, when, and the way they wish to journey. Flight Offers will then use AI to show one of the best bargains out there.

Flight Offers is now rolling out to greater than 200 international locations and territories worldwide, together with the U.Okay., France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea. The software can be getting help for greater than 60 languages.

As for the brand new AI Mode options, Google says customers can now use the built-in Canvas software to create journey plans. Canvas, which first launched as a option to construct research plans and arrange data over a number of classes in a facet panel, can now assist customers plan their upcoming journeys.

Customers want to inform AI mode what sort of journey they’re on the lookout for after which choose the “Create with Canvas” choice.

“Straight away, you’ll get a plan within the Canvas facet panel that brings collectively real-time Search information for flights and accommodations, particulars from Google Maps like photographs and opinions and related data from websites throughout the net,” Google defined in a weblog submit. “You’ll discover ideas that suit your standards, like lodge comparisons based mostly on pricing and facilities or concepts for eating places and actions optimized by journey time from the place you’re staying.”

Customers can then ask follow-up questions and get assist with tradeoffs, like selecting a lodge that’s nearer to a brunch place you wish to attempt however a bit farther from the mountaineering trails you wish to discover.

Journey planning with Canvas is obtainable on desktop within the U.S. for customers who’re opted into the AI Mode experiment in Labs.

Moreover, Google introduced that it’s bringing AI Mode’s agentic capabilities to extra individuals. Earlier this yr, Google introduced that customers who have been opted into Labs may now get assist with reserving restaurant reservations, occasion tickets, and sweetness and wellness appointments in AI Mode. Now, the corporate is making this functionality out there to all U.S. customers.

Customers can request dinner reservations based mostly on a number of preferences, resembling celebration dimension, date, time, location, and most well-liked delicacies. AI Mode will then search throughout completely different reservation platforms to seek out real-time availability for eating places that match the inquiry. It then surfaces a curated checklist of choices to select from.

Sooner or later, Google says it’s going to make it doable to complete reserving flights and accommodations immediately in AI Mode. Customers will be capable of describe what they’re on the lookout for after which evaluate completely different flights or accommodations and browse data like schedules, costs, room photographs, facilities, and opinions.