Google Flights vs Scott's Cheap Flights: Which Wins in 2026?
The cheapest international ticket I ever booked was $187 round-trip from New York to Buenos Aires. It came through a Going alert at 11:47 p.m. on a Tuesday in March 2024 — clearly a fuel-surcharge error on a code-share routing — and I had it ticketed by midnight. Forty-eight hours later, the same itinerary on Google Flights showed $1,420. I’ve spent eight years booking flights for myself, family members, and a small consulting practice that occasionally sends people to conferences. Across hundreds of bookings, I’ve used Google Flights and Scott’s Cheap Flights (rebranded to Going in 2022) as the two anchors of my workflow. They get pitched as competitors. They aren’t — they solve genuinely different problems, and the people who save the most money use both, on purpose, in a specific order. ...