Now Google Flights shows you train prices and schedules
I opened as my usual Google Flights to search for a flight to go to Rome next week and in the preview [...]
I opened as my usual Google Flights to look for a flight to go to Rome next week and in the price preview it gave me a few tens of euros, which is not very credible given that it is an ITA Airways monopoly route and especially because I was looking for a same-day round-trip flight. Since, however, I believe that the google search engine is the perfect place to look for a flight I clicked sure to find a flight.
Now on Google flights you book trains
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I had already happened to find flight+train options within the search results of the Google search engine, but these have always been intermodal tickets sold by companies. Instead, in this case 100% travel solutions are proposed on rail and on routes where train and air compete.
Looking for a Genoa Rome flight, the best option recommended by Google is the train, departing at 6 a.m. and arriving a few minutes before 12 noon in the Eternal City.
The same thing happens when looking for routes not served by airlines, for example looking for a Milan/Venice the best options are train, before original routes with stopovers in Rome, Vienna or Munich.
I have done about ten searches, and at the moment, only Trenitalia trains appear in the results. As with flights, the search engine, once the desired route is identified, leads directly to the company's page to complete the booking.
In conclusion
I don't mind the novelty, but I hope that the possibility of excluding trains from search results will be included because otherwise the risk is to waste time in searches, especially for domestic routes where the train, sooner or later, will really compete with the airplane.
