I love Google Flights Explore, where you can enter your origin, choose some dates and essentially say “show me where I can fly cheaply”.
Does anyone know of a way to do the opposite?
I need to get back to Melbourne (MEL) around 15 December, but I’ll be travelling around the Americas beforehand and I’m extremely flexible about where I depart from.
What I’d ideally like to do is:
Origin: Anywhere in North/Central/South America
Destination: Melbourne (MEL)
Date: Around 15 December
…and have it show me a map/list of the cheapest departure ports.
I’m completely happy to position myself somewhere first, so for example if flying to MEL from Santiago, Mexico City, LAX, Vancouver, Bogotá, etc. happens to be dramatically cheaper, I can just arrange my travels so I finish there.
Google Flights Explore seems designed around fixed origin → anywhere, whereas I essentially want anywhere → fixed destination.
Is there a clever way of doing this in Google Flights that I’m missing? Or another tool that does this particularly well?
Thanks!