Google Launches Flight Search

Google Launches Flight Search

Internet King Google has launched the flight search tool which will be a potential challenge to online travel services.

Flight Search is the first travel product from Google since its $US700 million acquisition of ITA Software earlier this year.

Google said, "Since then, our engineering teams have been working closely together to build new travel tools that provide faster, more flexible, and more useful results to online travel searches".

A "Flights" link will appear on the left-hand side of the page (shown below) when a Google search user types in a query for flight information. Flight Search can also be directly accessed through google.com/flights.



For the moment, Flight Search only offers flights for a limited number of US cities and shows results for round-trip economy-class flights only.