If you’re a flexible kind of traveler, Google is releasing an update to search that might help save some money the next time you’re flying somewhere. A new tab under Google’s Flights search, called Flight Insights, now shows you tips to make your travel a little more cost-efficient, such as flying on a different day, landing in a different airport, or checking to see how airfares vary over time on a graph. These are features similar to what you’d find on aggregator sites like Kayak and Orbitz, but now Google is making them more visually easy to sort though.

For example, there’s now a calendar view for you to check what fares look like if you fly in / out a few days before or after the date you originally searched for. You…

Continue reading…