Google Flights - Changes, Updates, Glitches and Help [consolidated thread]
Jul 7, 2024 | 6:01 pm
#376
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Any ides why google flights is not showing flights connecting through HKG recently? I've been to Bangkok 3 times in the past year and flights on UNITED with HKG connections always showed up and they show up when doing a similar search on UNITED.COM right now. Take for instance this flight. https://www.google.com/travel/flight...________AZgBAQ ... There are many flights connecting through HKG on united, but none of them show on google flights.. Thanks if you have any ideas.
Jul 19, 2024 | 5:07 am
#378
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Jul 24, 2024 | 12:02 am
#379
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Location: Seattle & Seoul.... and now, Maastricht....
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Where did the price date grid go? Now that we have that useless Best/Cheapest bar-thing, my price grid option disappeared..... 
Jul 26, 2024 | 4:30 am
#380
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Last edited by mattp1987; Jul 26, 2024 at 4:31 am Reason: Add browser/OS
Jul 30, 2024 | 9:25 am
#381
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EDIT: Found it. It appears in the middle of the search now, as opposed to the top of the screen where it was before. That's annoying.
EDIT AGAIN: It doesn't show up for all searches. I can't see it when searching for a r/t Seoul to Mauritius. Doesn't seem to work from Seoul. Strange.
EDIT Part III: Looks like it won't come up if you select the "cheapest" box. You have to select "best". Weird.
Last edited by Paella747; Jul 30, 2024 at 9:44 am
Feb 16, 2025 | 3:39 pm
#382
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Google Flights- Booking Options - Different Prices with Different Booking Sites- why?
I was looking at business class bookings from Ottawa to Zurich- for approx 2 weeks late June 2025.
Flights are on a combination of AC and LX.
Cheapest fare on AC web site was over CAD $8000 (return)
Cheapest fare on LX web site was over CAD $6000 (return)
Going to Google Flights- if one booked on Flight Hub, Cheap O Air, or Just Fly. com- price was under CAD $4000.
I presume the the 3 web sites are third party web sites- offering consolidator fares?
If flying on the airlines booked through those web sites- would I get full benefits through my Star Alliance Gold Status with AC.
Would I get points accrual?
I am sure there are disadvantages associated with the low fares booked through those web sites?
Flights are on a combination of AC and LX.
Cheapest fare on AC web site was over CAD $8000 (return)
Cheapest fare on LX web site was over CAD $6000 (return)
Going to Google Flights- if one booked on Flight Hub, Cheap O Air, or Just Fly. com- price was under CAD $4000.
I presume the the 3 web sites are third party web sites- offering consolidator fares?
If flying on the airlines booked through those web sites- would I get full benefits through my Star Alliance Gold Status with AC.
Would I get points accrual?
I am sure there are disadvantages associated with the low fares booked through those web sites?
Jul 14, 2025 | 11:52 am
#383
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Finally! Dunno how long it's been there, but I just noticed it...
Jul 14, 2025 | 12:11 pm
#384
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Hmm! On one hand, that's helpful!
On the other hand, most of us had been using the carry-on-bags filter already... and I'm wondering if this new dropdown just needlessly complicates/confuses things (because sometimes economy basic comes with a carry-on bag, right?)
On the other hand, most of us had been using the carry-on-bags filter already... and I'm wondering if this new dropdown just needlessly complicates/confuses things (because sometimes economy basic comes with a carry-on bag, right?)
Jul 14, 2025 | 12:16 pm
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I'm not sure which cases need to be considered because each airline seems to handle BE in a slightly different way, but the bags filter is still there at least for now. So if all one cares about is being able to take a carry-on bag, that option still exists. For those airlines on which "includes carry-on bag" is insufficient to filter out basic economy, then for those who care about elite benefits and/or earnings at regular vs. reduced rate etc. then there is now that ability where there wasn't before.
Jul 15, 2025 | 6:10 am
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Jul 15, 2025 | 8:03 am
#387
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EDIT: also Canada and some Caribbean (US territories? STT/SJU but not SXM for example)
Last edited by Zorak; Jul 15, 2025 at 2:02 pm
Aug 3, 2025 | 12:00 pm
#389
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The BE filter has now been rolled back, at least for me including all my tracked prices that I had changed to exclude BE no longer filter out BE...
including all my tracked prices that I had changed to exclude BE no longer filter out BE...
Aug 16, 2025 | 7:20 am
#390
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Tracked prices that I had added with the "exclude BE" filter have that setting intact
though newer tracked items that I added in the interim included BE and had to be tweaked.