Google is widening its AI travel ambitions with a broader rollout of Flight Deals and new planning features in Search. The update brings together cheaper-flight discovery, itinerary organization, and booking assistance across several parts of Google’s travel and Search experience.
The main change is scale. Flight Deals, an AI-powered tool inside Google Flights, is moving from its initial markets to a global rollout, while AI Mode is gaining more ways to help users plan and book trips.
Flight Deals Moves Beyond Its First Markets
Google first launched Flight Deals in August in the U.S., Canada, and India. The tool is now rolling out to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including the U.K., France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea.
The feature is designed for people who know the kind of trip they want but may not know the best destination or deal. Instead of starting with a specific airport pair and fixed destination, users describe where, when, and how they want to travel.
Flight Deals then uses AI to show the best bargains available. That makes the search process more conversational: a traveler can begin with intent, timing, and preferences, and the tool turns that into destination and fare options inside Google Flights.
Language support is also expanding. Google says Flight Deals is getting support for more than 60 languages, which matters for a tool that depends on people describing travel plans in natural language.
Canvas Becomes A Trip Planning Workspace
Google is also extending Canvas, its built-in planning tool in AI Mode, into travel. Canvas first launched as a way to build study plans and organize information over multiple sessions in a side panel. Now, it can help users work through upcoming trips.
To use it for travel, users tell AI Mode what type of trip they are looking for and choose the Create with Canvas option. From there, Canvas creates a plan in a side panel using several kinds of information already available through Google’s services and the web.
According to Google, the plan can bring together real-time Search data for flights and hotels, details from Google Maps such as photos and reviews, and relevant information from sites across the web. The output can include hotel comparisons based on pricing and amenities, as well as restaurant and activity ideas organized around travel time from where a user is staying.
The value is not only in the first draft. Users can ask follow-up questions and weigh tradeoffs, such as choosing a hotel that is closer to a brunch place but farther from hiking trails. That turns Canvas into an interactive travel planning surface rather than a static itinerary list.
For now, travel planning with Canvas is available on desktop in the U.S. for users who are opted into the AI Mode experiment in Labs.
Booking Help Expands To More U.S. Users
Google is also bringing AI Mode’s agentic capabilities to more people. Earlier this year, Google announced that users opted into Labs could get help booking restaurant reservations, event tickets, and beauty and wellness appointments in AI Mode. The company is now making that capability available to all U.S. users.
For restaurant reservations, users can make requests based on several preferences at once. These can include party size, date, time, location, and preferred cuisine.
AI Mode then searches across different reservation platforms to find real-time availability for restaurants that match the request. Instead of completing the entire process from a single vague query, it returns a curated list of options that users can choose from.
That approach shows how Google is positioning AI Mode: not just as a place to answer questions, but as a tool that can search, compare, and narrow choices based on practical constraints.
Flights And Hotels Could Be Next Inside AI Mode
Google says it plans to make it possible to finish booking flights and hotels directly in AI Mode in the future. Users would be able to describe what they are looking for, compare flights or hotels, and browse information such as schedules, prices, room photos, amenities, and reviews.
That future feature would connect the earlier stages of trip planning with the booking step. A user could start by describing a trip, compare options, and eventually complete a flight or hotel booking within AI Mode.
For now, the rollout is split across different levels of availability. Flight Deals is expanding globally in Google Flights. Canvas travel planning is limited to desktop in the U.S. for users opted into the AI Mode experiment in Labs. Agentic booking help for restaurants, event tickets, and beauty and wellness appointments is expanding to all U.S. users.
Taken together, the updates show Google making travel search more conversational and task-oriented. The common thread is that users can start with preferences, constraints, and tradeoffs, while Google’s AI tools organize the available options into a more usable planning flow.