PC Magazine - USA (2019-06)

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Don’t see what you like? You almost never have to wait for Google to load its
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loading bar inch along to completion, as it does on otherwise excellent travel
search engines such as Momondo and Kayak.


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family. Airlines sometimes make only one or two seats available at the lowest
fare. When one seat is available for $49 and four seats are available for $99,
you’ll be charged $99 each for all four tickets if you search for four travelers at
once. To avoid this, start your search for one traveler and then add more until
the price per seat changes, performing a new search each time. This can be done
in a few seconds with Google Flights, while it can take several minutes with
most other search engines.


Google Flights will happily oblige more complex requests, too. Its advanced
techniques include typing in a list of airport codes separated by commas to
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multiple one-way tickets that might be cheaper than a single roundtrip ticket.

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