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Kayak's Newest Flight Price-matching Feature Helps You Find the Cheapest Airfare — and We Tested It Out
06.03.2024 - 22:23 / travelandleisure.com / Airlines
Kayak is making it much easier for travelers to ensure they get the best flight deal thanks to the rollout of its new PriceCheck tool.
Leveraging the power of AI, Kayak’s PriceCheck is “a new patent-pending price comparison tool” that’s free to use for mobile app users of the travel search engine. Travelers can upload a screenshot of their airfare — from any website — and Kayak will search across the competition to ensure they’re getting the best possible deal.
For instance, Travel + Leisure inputted a Google Flights screenshot for a round-trip booking from New York to Seoul on Korean Air this spring. While the original price from the screenshot was $1,974, Kayak’s PriceCheck tool was able to find the same flight for as low as $1,830 on a competing site — resulting in nearly a $150 savings.
In addition, Kayak also provided a few alternative flights from different airlines that were more than $700 cheaper than the original itinerary. On the same screen, Kayak offers travelers the ability to set a price alert to get notified when airfares change for this particular flight.
«We’re constantly challenging the status quo when it comes to travel planning — this time with AI,” said Matthias Keller, Chief Scientist & SVP of Technology at Kayak, in a statement shared exclusively with T+L. “From KAYAK PriceCheck, a patent-pending game-changer that helps travelers quickly discover if they've secured the cheapest price, to Ask KAYAK, an AI companion that understands travel desires like never before – we’re not just offering tools, we’re ushering in a new era of personalized travel planning. Our team had a lot of fun building these new products, and we’re excited for travelers to check them out too.»
Kayak shares some tips on the app and says that the tool works best when all flight itinerary details for a single traveler are clearly visible in the screenshot, including the price, travel dates, airline, and origin and destination airports.
Along with this announcement, the company has launched “Ask Kayak,” another free feature that allows users to plan around destinations, travel dates, budget, and more. All of these new features come as other artificial intelligence services have come about recently to improve the overall trip planning experience, including Expedia and Google’s AI tools.
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