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I'm trying to use Google Flights as is often recommended to me. I've got the language set to English and the currency set to AUD.

I've found a cheap flight from Bangkok to Europe and click on it. It sends me to a booking agent's site, in this case th.gotogate.com. But the site comes up in Thai and doesn't seem to have a language switch.

The site is in other languages, but if I manually change the language code in the URL it takes me to the site's start page. If I search for the same flight from there it's either not there or the price is a lot higher.

Is there a way to make sure that when you've set Google Flights to English that it will take you to the English language version of the booking site?

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You have to change the country in the bottom of the Google Flights page, as you always get redirected to the version of the booking website for your chosen country:

Country: Thailand Contry: Australia

(Note that the currency you set in Google Flights influences neither the language of the OTA website nor the currency you are charged in.)

Mophotla
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Is there a way to make sure that when you've set Google Flights to English that it will take you to the English language version of the booking site?

No (you can't even make sure that the prices displayed on Google Flights are correct…), but you can increase the likelihood of viewing an English version using some computer (e.g. via VPN or VNC) located in some English-speaking country.

Regarding the case of http://th.gotogate.com/, scroll down and click on one of the flags to change the language:

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or directly click on https://ie.gotogate.com/

Franck Dernoncourt
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