Google might have shut down its Trips app, but it is far from giving up on acting as your online travel broker. It has just revamped its hotel search process on its new Travel site and is now offering better price-tracking on Google Flights. If you use Google Flights to plan and purchase tickets for your trips, the site will have your back over the next month or so. Among numerous other travel-oriented improvements Google is making to the service, Flights will now offer a “Price Guarantee.”
On the Google Flights front, the price-tracking chart has been updated to include specific figures for an itinerary, showing whether the current lowest fares are cheap, expensive, or typical for the season.
To bring in all of these changes, Google is offering a price guarantee for certain flights booked between August 13 and September 2 for U.S.-based domestic or international travel that’s completed by November 24. If Google claims that it does not expect the price for your trip to drop by the time you fly, if the fare actually does fall, the company will automatically compensate you the difference. You’re able to be refunded for any number of guaranteed flights with a maximum payout of $500 — just make sure you check that the price guarantee applies to your route.
If you book a flight anytime in the next several weeks (but perhaps longer), you won’t need to worry about buyer’s remorse if the ticket prices suddenly drop.
You can check out the details here and see the full terms and conditions here.
