Could it get any easier? We tested this new feature that was announced Friday on Google's Inside Search blog, and it works beautifully, especially if you're talking about major cities.
For instance, type "flight LA SF", and you'll get a long list of flights when you click on the resulting drop-down list:
Or you can simply type "flights LA" and Google will helpfully show you each flight to Los Angeles from all airports, including numerous airlines and flight durations. Find out what flights originate from your local airport by typing "flights from [your airport here]".
It works in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Catalan.
It's not quite so easy if your destination is not served by a nonstop flight. For example, we tried entering "flights from Milwaukee to Tahiti" and got nothing but the usual list of travel sites.
Smaller towns with tiny airports aren't particularly well served, either. Type "flights from Topeka" and again you'll see those usual travel sites. But city dwellers will almost always get results when they type the word "flight" and the name of a city.
There are a lot of trick searches you can do on Google that have been around for a while. A favorite of ours is to do quick conversions of currency, weights and measures using the power of Google. For example, type "300 gbp in usd" (which stands for 300 Great Britain pounds in U.S. dollars) and you'll immediately see the answer: $494.19. The key word there is "in". It's especially handy with metric conversion. Try this one: "250 km in miles."
Thanks, Google. This is yet another life-enhancing improvement added to your search repertoire.