Google Flights Missoula (2024)

FAQs

What airline is not on Google Flights? ›

Not all airlines are on Google Flights. One major exception in the US is Southwest Airlines, which does not list its fares on Google Flights. Several large Asian carriers are also absent from the results, including Air China, China Eastern, Thai Airways, and Philippine Airlines.

If you're flexible about where you'd like to fly from and fly to, you can enter multiple airports separated by commas. You can also enter one airport (like BOS) and then click on the location icon to look for nearby airports. Click OK to add your selected airports to your search entry.

You can find cheap flight deals to anywhere in the world on Google Flights. Just enter your departure city, choose Anywhere as the destination, and select Explore. You can pick specific dates or leave departure and return dates blank if your plans are flexible. The cheapest fares to popular destinations will appear.

Next to Dates, you can select the See calendar of lowest fares option to find the lowest fares available within a 30 day period. Enter a value of zero within the Duration (nights) field for same-day travel. Enter a range with a dash if your plans are flexible, such as 7-9 for a trip of about a week.

While Tuesday is the cheapest day to book a flight in general, this is not the case for all airlines. In fact, Sunday is the best day to book a flight with American Airlines, JetBlue, and United Airlines.

As previously mentioned, booking airfare on Sunday is cheaper than other days of the week, especially Fridays. Be willing to fly mid-week. Since Thursdays tend to be the cheapest day to fly, see if you can tweak your travel plans so you depart and fly home during the week instead of on weekend days. Set price alerts.

Google Flights is one of the best options when booking directly from the airline, although you can also compare prices from third-party booking sites such as Kiwi.com and Trip.com. It's also nice to be able to customize your search instead of receiving curated round-trip packages that dominate the industry.

By default, Google Flights displays fares without the carry-on bag fee if one is charged. You'll see an icon of a roller bag with a slash through it when baggage costs extra. Many airlines include a carry-on bag for free while only a select few charge for a carry-on.

To be clear, Google Flights is not shutting down, but will continue to enable travelers to click on airline and online travel agency links to book their flights, as they have done for years for the vast majority of flights.

Why are flights so expensive right now? ›

While, yes, airplane production has slowed down, fleet sizes are still increasing—in other words, airlines now have more planes than they did last year. However, demand for travel is still higher in the summer months. High demand + lower supply = higher fares.

Google Flights uses over 300 partners, like airlines, online travel agencies, and aggregators, to display its offers. Not all airlines or available flights are included, as a partnership with Google is required.

“Unlike most other airlines, Southwest does not use online travel agencies to market or sell tickets. ” Google Flights requires a partnership with either the airline itself or a data provider with access to an airline's fares in order to display prices to consumers.

If an aircraft you are looking for is not visible on Flightradar24 it either does not have a compatible transponder or it's out of Flightradar24 coverage. Please visit our FAQ to find answers to frequently asked questions about Flightradar24.

If Allegiant is flying the date you're searching for it will show their flights.

Online travel agencies don't have permission to grab Ryanair's flight information and they likely obtain it via screen-scraping or through another online travel agency.