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

Google is rolling out new AI-powered features to book and plan travel in Search, the company announced on Monday. The tech giant is expanding the availability of its AI-powered “Flight Deals” tool, adding the ability for users to organize travel plans with its “Canvas” tool in AI Mode, and launching agent booking capabilities to a broader audience.

Google first launched Flight Deals back in August in the U.S., Canada, and India. Now, the company is expanding the AI-powered search tool within Google Flights globally to help people quickly find affordable destinations.

To get started, users describe where, when, and how they want to travel. Flight Deals will then use AI to surface the best bargains available.

Flight Deals is now available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including the U.K., France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. The tool also supports more than 60 languages.

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Alongside this, Google is upgrading its AI Mode experience. Users can now leverage the built-in Canvas tool to create and organize travel plans directly within Search. Canvas—originally introduced to help users build study plans and manage information across multiple sessions—now extends to travel planning.

To use it, users tell AI Mode what type of trip they want and select the “Create with Canvas” option.

“Right away, you’ll get a plan in the Canvas side panel that brings together real-time Search data for flights and hotels, details from Google Maps like photos and reviews and relevant information from sites across the web,” Google explained in a blog post. “You’ll find suggestions that fit your criteria, like hotel comparisons based on pricing and amenities or ideas for restaurants and activities optimized by travel time from where you’re staying.”

Users can then ask follow-up questions and receive personalized guidance on trade-offs, such as selecting a hotel that’s closer to a brunch spot they want to try but farther from the hiking trails they plan to explore.

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Travel planning with Canvas is available on desktop in the U.S. for users who are opted into the AI Mode experiment in Labs.

Additionally, Google announced that it’s bringing AI Mode’s agentic capabilities to more people. Earlier this year, Google announced that users who were opted into Labs could now get help with booking restaurant reservations, event tickets, and beauty and wellness appointments in AI Mode. Now, the company is making this capability available to all U.S. users.

Users can request dinner reservations based on multiple preferences, such as party size, date, time, location, and preferred cuisine. AI Mode will then search across different reservation platforms to find real-time availability for restaurants that match the inquiry. It then surfaces a curated list of options to choose from.

In the future, Google plans to enable users to complete their flight and hotel bookings directly in AI Mode. Users will be able to describe what they’re looking for and then compare different flights or hotels, browsing information such as schedules, prices, room photos, amenities, and reviews.