Google Flights Touches Down In Singapore
Google Maps has grown into something of a necessity. So maybe you ask — what’s the next big thing to come from the search engine giant?
Enter Google Flights — an online flight booking service.
The service was actually launched in 2011. But only yesterday (17 Dec) did it become available for use in Singapore.
Google Flights works very much like other flight aggregator websites like SkyScanner and CheapFlights — it gathers the details from all the airlines and lets you choose what most suits your travel budget and itinerary.
Swift, seamless, and ad-free
As with all things Google, the interface is neat, pleasant and seamless.
Apart from producing a list of all the best flights available on the Internet, Google Flights also has additional gimmicks like a flight price graph which shows you monthly ticket price updates, and a reminder option that sends you an email whenever prices dip.
In case you’re worried about price discrepancies, we checked — the list of prices are the same as those on other popular aggregator websites.
If you can’t decide on a destination, there’s an explore function that brings up a map dotted with hundreds of flight prices. So you can scroll through countries and continents and look for that golden destination while always keeping an eye on the prices.
A Google service for everything
Google Flights is just one of the many Google services some of us may now be using. Think about it.
There’s Google Maps, Google News, Google Finance, Google Books, Google Docs, Google Play, Gmail, Google Drive and the list goes on — but you get the point.
For some, it may be a good thing that every service we use is linked to a single Google account. More often than not, this means doing away with tedious identification processes when signing up for a new service.
For others, depending too much on Google could be seen as a bad thing — the Internet giant will come to possess a broad range of information about its users. And we’ve seen how large corporations are sometimes a little careless when handling user information.
But that aside, we Singaporeans can finally look forward to an alternative to websites like Skyscanner and Cheapflights. We’ll be waiting in the wings to see if Google Flights gains traction locally.
Featured image from Google Flights.
