I Know The Pilot MCP Server

by com-iknowthepilot Your server? Claim it

answering

I Know The Pilot is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Find curated cheap flight and travel deals from Australia.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 90%

52 days agonow

98.9%

Uptime 24h

90 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

1325 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

I Know The Pilot does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 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

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flight-deals": {
      "url": "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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flight-deals": {
      "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	1390 ms	1 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 90 of 91 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 1325 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 with the file path 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 1325 ms on average, which is faster than 5% 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.