About Google Flights
Google Travel is a service that helps users organize travel. On google.com/travel, travelers can view available destinations for upcoming trips, browse sights in their selected city, as well as find and book flights, hotels, or other holiday accommodations.
The main advantage of Google Travel is that all information related to booked services is stored in a single place (one’s Google account). This conveniently allows travelers to track the departure of flights, set a reminder to pick up their rental car, or view the address of a hotel they liked in case they want to return there.
Google Travel also analyzes the history of searches and bookings, while considering user preferences. Thanks to this, travelers can receive personal recommendations for travel destinations.
Google Flights is an flight ticket search service that is part of Google Travel. By using this service, travelers can find and compare tickets from various airlines.
It’s enough for the user to specify the city of departure and arrival, select dates, and refine the search with filters. After a user selects their desired flight, Google Flights will sort the suggestions by price and offer to buy tickets on an aggregator or airline website.
To buy the cheapest ticket, users can track the prices of their selected flights. With a single click, they will receive notifications about price changes and travel tips via email.
Google Flights analyzes the cost of flight tickets for the prior 12 months according to the selected destination, season, airline, and other parameters. Based on this data, the service shows whether the cost of the selected flight is typical or not.
About Google Flights APIs
If you want to implement the ability to search and compare prices for flight tickets on your project, it’s not necessary to write code from scratch. Instead, you can integrate the Flights API, which will speed up your website or mobile app and save you time.
Flights APIs are usually provided by airlines, data services, and other contributors that manage massive amounts of data. One of the providers of this tool is Google Flights, which had two API products until 2018.
QPX for Enterprise (ITA Software by Google)
ITA Software by Google is a technology solution for businesses. Travel companies can implement an API into their businesses to help tourists buy cheap tickets, monitor changes in flight prices, and select alternative flights.
In terms of business benefits, ITA Software helps companies increase revenue by selling related products and facilitating the operation of their websites.
QPX for enterprise is operated by major airlines, such as American Airlines, S7, Delta Air Lines, and many others.
To learn more about ITA Software and integrate this solution into your business, you need to contact the manager of Google.
QPX Express
QPX Express is a Google Flights API for developers that allows webmasters to work with flight data and the cost of flight tickets.
In April 2018, Google suspended support for QPX Express due to low use of the tool.
Google Flights API Alternatives
The development community loved QPX Express due to its ease of use and the fact that it enabled them to make the first 50 requests per day for free. Now, other suppliers, such as Skyscanner and Kiwi.com, provide Flights APIs that are no less effective, profitable, and, in some cases, free.
Skyscanner Flights API
The Skyscanner Flights API is an API from the popular online ticket search engine, which compares the prices of flights on over 1,000 travel sites.
Skyscanner Flights API allows users to search for flight prices from anywhere in the world. The search results are based on Skyscanner’s database. Here are some of the advantages of the API:
- It’s free
- You can earn with the Skyscanner affiliate program, which is available on the CJ Affiliate network. You’ll earn every time users will purchase flight tickets using your API
- The API covers more than 30 markets and languages and over 1,000 travel partners
- Technical support is offered. The customer service manager will help you integrate the API into your project
You can find out more about Skyscanner Flights API in our article.
Kiwi.com Flights API
Kiwi.com has a Flights Search API, which is available for partners connected to the Kiwi.com program in the Travelpayouts partnership platform. Here are some of the advantages of the Kiwi.com Flights API:
- It’s free
- You can earn 3% of your partner’s income by selling flight tickets using the Kiwi.com partner tools as part of the program via the Travelpayouts partnership platform
- Includes two billion prices for over 750 air carriers, including 250 low-cost carriers
- Round-the-clock customer support
We explained the benefits of the Kiwi.com Flights API in this article.
