I Know The Pilot MCP Server

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answering

I Know The Pilot is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Find curated cheap flight and travel deals from Australia.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 90%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

1382 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 24 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

24 Aug 2 tools appeared find_cheapest_flights_to, get_cheapest_flight_dates

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check I Know The Pilot every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add flight-deals --transport http https://iknowthepilot.com.au/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://iknowthepilot.com.au/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.flight-deals]
url = "https://iknowthepilot.com.au/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flight-deals": {
      "url": "https://iknowthepilot.com.au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "flight-deals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://iknowthepilot.com.au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

cheapest

find_cheapest_flights_to

When the user hasn't said where they're flying from, compare the cheapest fare to a destination from every origin airport with cached data. Prices are cached fares in AUD from I Want That Flight (I Know The Pilot's sister flight-search site) - refreshed regularly and indicative, not live availability. Always present the travel dates alongside prices. Use this for 'cheapest flights to Bali next month' queries; use get_cheapest_flight_dates when the origin is known.

get_cheapest_flight_dates

For a known origin and destination, get the cheapest fare for each departure date in a date window. Prices are cached fares in AUD from I Want That Flight (I Know The Pilot's sister flight-search site) - refreshed regularly and indicative, not live availability. Always present the travel dates alongside prices. Use this for 'cheapest flights from Sydney to Bali in September' queries; use search_deals for curated editorial deals.

deal

get_deal

Get full details for a specific flight deal including routes and airlines.

deals

search_deals

Search for currently active curated flight deals from Australia. Returns deals matching destination and/or price criteria. Deals are curated exceptional fares, not live inventory search.

top

list_top_deals_from

List the cheapest currently active flight deals from a specific Australian airport. Great for answering 'what's cheap from Melbourne right now?'

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://iknowthepilot.com.au/mcp	streamable-http	answering	1483 ms	11 min ago

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I Know The Pilot — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can I Know The Pilot do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_cheapest_flights_to, get_cheapest_flight_dates, get_deal, list_top_deals_from, search_deals. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is I Know The Pilot working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 1382 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect I Know The Pilot?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does I Know The Pilot need an API key?

No. I Know The Pilot completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is I Know The Pilot?

It answers our handshake in 1382 ms on average, which is faster than 1% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.