Google just unleashed its AI travel arsenal worldwide. The tech giant's Flight Deals tool, which uses artificial intelligence to surface flight bargains through conversational search, is now live in over 200 countries after launching in just three markets this August. Combined with new Canvas travel planning features and expanded booking capabilities, Google's making a serious play to own your entire travel workflow.
Google is betting big that conversational AI will reshape how we book travel. The company's Flight Deals tool, which lets users describe their dream trip in natural language and get AI-curated bargains in return, just went from a three-country experiment to a global rollout spanning more than 200 territories.
The expansion represents Google's most aggressive push yet into AI-powered travel planning. When Flight Deals first launched in August, it was limited to the US, Canada, and India. Now travelers in the UK, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea can simply tell Google Flights "I want a cheap weekend getaway somewhere warm" and watch AI surface the best deals available.
"Flight Deals will then use AI to display the best bargains available," according to Google's announcement. The tool now supports over 60 languages, making it accessible to a massive global audience that traditional flight search engines often struggled to serve effectively.
But Google isn't stopping at flight discovery. The company's rolling out Canvas integration for travel planning, transforming what started as a study tool into a comprehensive trip organizer. Users can now tell AI Mode what type of vacation they want and select "Create with Canvas" to get a complete itinerary that pulls together real-time flight data, hotel comparisons, Google Maps reviews, and restaurant recommendations optimized by travel time.
"Right away, you'll get a plan in the Canvas side panel that brings together real-time Search data for flights and hotels, details from Google Maps like photos and reviews and relevant information from sites across the web," Google explained in its announcement. The system can even help with complex tradeoffs, like choosing between a hotel closer to that brunch spot you want to try versus one nearer the hiking trails.
The Canvas travel feature is currently desktop-only and limited to US users opted into Google's AI Mode experiment in Labs. But it signals Google's broader ambition to create an end-to-end travel planning experience that keeps users within its ecosystem from inspiration to booking.
