# Flight Price MCP Server — Claude, Cursor & AI Agents (`makework36/flight-mcp-server`) Actor

Plug-and-play multi-source flight price MCP server (Google Flights, Kiwi, TAP, JetBlue, and more) for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT and any MCP-compatible AI agent. IATA airport codes in, curated flight data out.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/makework36/flight-mcp-server.md
- **Developed by:** [deusex machine](https://apify.com/makework36) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Integrations, Travel
- **Stats:** 23 total users, 6 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $30.00 / 1,000 tool calls

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Flight Price MCP Server

Plug-and-play multi-source flight price search as a native **Model Context Protocol** (MCP) server. Connect your AI agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, VS Code, Codex) and search flights with IATA airport codes in natural language.

### Connect from your MCP client

MCP Standby endpoint:

```
https://makework36--flight-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN
```

#### Claude Desktop

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flight-price": {
      "url": "https://makework36--flight-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
    }
  }
}
```

#### Cursor / Claude Code / VS Code

Use [mcp.apify.com](https://mcp.apify.com) — select this Actor, click the install line for your client.

### Available tools

#### `search_flights`

Search real flight prices by IATA airport codes.

**Arguments:**

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|------|------|----------|-------------|
| `origin` | string | ✅ | Origin IATA code (e.g. `LAX`, `JFK`, `MTY`, `MAD`) |
| `destination` | string | ✅ | Destination IATA code |
| `departDate` | string | ✅ | `YYYY-MM-DD` |
| `returnDate` | string | — | `YYYY-MM-DD` round-trip (omit for one-way) |
| `adults` | integer | — | 1–9, default 1 |
| `cabinClass` | enum | — | `ECONOMY`, `PREMIUM_ECONOMY`, `BUSINESS`, `FIRST` |
| `currency` | string | — | Default `USD` |
| `maxFlights` | integer | — | 1–100, default 20 |

**Returns:** compact JSON with query summary + up to `maxFlights` flights (best price per source, airline, departure/arrival times, duration, stops, cabin classes).

### 💵 Pricing

**$0.03 per successful tool call.** Failed calls are not billed.

### 🎯 Use cases

- **Travel assistants**: "find the cheapest flight LAX→NRT in July"
- **Comparison bots**: aggregate prices across Google Flights, Kiwi, TAP, JetBlue
- **Price-watch workflows**: schedule periodic searches + alert when prices drop
- **Itinerary builders**: feed multiple legs back-to-back into an agent reasoning loop

### Under the hood

Wraps the `makework36/flight-price-scraper` Actor which queries multiple flight data sources in parallel:

- Google Flights
- Kiwi.com
- TAP Air Portugal
- JetBlue
- and more

Each `search_flights` call returns the cheapest result per source so the agent can reason about best options.

### Related

- [Skyscanner MCP Server](https://apify.com/makework36/skyscanner-mcp-server) — dedicated Skyscanner search with entity IDs + cheapest-destination mode.
- [Airbnb MCP Server](https://apify.com/makework36/airbnb-mcp-server) — vacation rentals.
- Upstream scraper: [flight-price-scraper](https://apify.com/makework36/flight-price-scraper).

# Actor input Schema

## `showSetupInstructions` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, the test run outputs MCP connection details (the Standby URL you paste in your AI client) and the full list of available flight-search tools — search\_flights — with their IATA-code arguments, example queries, and per-call pricing. Leave this enabled if you are exploring the Actor for the first time. This setting has no effect when the Actor is invoked via its Standby MCP endpoint from Claude, Cursor, or any other AI client.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "showSetupInstructions": true
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("makework36/flight-mcp-server").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("makework36/flight-mcp-server").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call makework36/flight-mcp-server --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,makework36/flight-mcp-server"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/O9AdzjJuY1vt0ytMx/builds/WImHlRuIYtTTefjde/openapi.json