Expedia has launched a new feature in Canada to help travellers find more affordable airfares. The tool is called ‘Flight Deals,’ which is available exclusively on the Expedia app.
Flight Deals is a customizable feed that offers fares that are reportedly 20 per cent lower than the typical predicted price for flights.
The Flight Deals tool also includes an interactive map that’s available on iOS to help travellers take a quick look at airfares and enables faster and more intuitive trip planning. The tool is constantly analyzing millions of deals that meet a minimum value and quality bar. Flight Deals uses historical data and other price context factors while also running through a quality check, which filters out fares with more than one stop or super-long layovers.
You can find Flight Deals in the Expedia app under the ‘Search’ tab, then ‘Find Deals,’ which offers an open-ended way to look for flights. Expedia says that while flight trackers watch prices, Flight Deals evaluates trips to see if the flight actually makes sense for a traveller, and then highlights smart routing, reasonable layovers and exceptional value.
According to Expedia, Flight Deals features include:
- “Personalised feed – Browse flight deals to anywhere, or filter by destination and travel date.
- “Interactive map experience – The map view, available on iOS, helps travelers compare destinations, making it easier to spot where the best deals are available.
- “Great deals only – To qualify as a Flight Deal, a fare must be at least 20% lower than the typical predicted price for the route. Qualifying flights are displayed in the feed and are based on an analysis of 30+ factors, including historical data, booking windows and seasonality.
- “No gatekeeping – Flight Deals is free, with no fee to see international flights or create custom deal alerts.
- “Quality flights – Flight Deals does not surface routes with more than one stop or super‑long layovers.
- “Always updating – Flight Deals uses machine learning to analyze millions of flights every day, sourcing new deals continuously and only surfacing deals that have been found in the last 24 hours.
- “Custom deal alerts – Airfare prices can change daily, but travelers can set customized notifications and be alerted when a new deal appears for a preferred destination and date range.
- “Book in the app – Go from browsing flight deals to booking in seconds, and manage the entire trip using self-service tools in the Expedia app.”
Source: Expedia
