How you can get cash back on your plane tickets using Google Flights

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It’s no secret that travelling can be a bit worrying, particularly with regards to reserving flights. With continuously altering costs, it’s onerous to know whether or not you’re getting a superb deal on a plane ticket. Luckily, Google Flights has launched a useful instrument to verify you’re getting the bottom potential fare earlier than departure – and pays you back if the worth goes down.

In April 2023, Google Flights launched its “price guarantee” program, which refunds passengers the distinction in worth if their airfare drops after they’ve purchased their ticket. The provide solely applies to flights proven by the journey search platform as having a “price guarantee” badge.

For those who do have the tag, if the worth drops within the time between a buyer’s reserving and the flight’s departure, Google pays the distinction as much as $500 through Google Pay. Travellers are capped, nevertheless, at receiving not more than $500 back in complete per calendar 12 months; this can be unfold over as much as three “price guarantee” flights.

Customers have to be signed into their Google account and set their nation or area to the United States, with costs displayed in {dollars}, to see the worth assure badge on chosen flights. They should additionally purchase the flight through the “Book on Google” choice and be buying a one-way or return ticket departing from the States.

Flights with the worth assure will show a “colourful price badge”, says Google – travellers choose the flight, click on “Book on Google”, and tick the worth assure field agreeing to the phrases of service. “After you book, we monitor the price until the first flight in your itinerary departs,” mentioned Google in a weblog put up. “We then send you an email to let you know if the price dropped or not.”

“If the price dropped, we pay you the difference back in Google Pay. If the price didn’t go down, you can rest assured that you got the best price with Google Flights.”

Travellers must obtain the Google Pay app and set it up inside 90 days of their flight departure so as to obtain cash back ought to the airfare go down in worth. Even if the flight worth drops after which goes back up once more, Google Flights will refund the distinction between what the passenger paid and the bottom potential worth earlier than takeoff.

However, if the airline cancels or reschedules the flight, Google gained’t pay the distinction.