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Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) MCP Server

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Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 7 Oct 2026.

Real-time flight search: one-way and round-trip fares across date ranges, with price verdicts.

Uptime history 61 days of history · worst day 26%
61 days agonow
69.6%
Uptime 24h
64 of 92 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
219 ms
Response time
average over 24h
4
Stars
last commit 7 Oct 2026

What changed 26

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 17 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_roundtrip_flights
28 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for search_oneway_flights, search_roundtrip_flights
26 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for search_oneway_flights, search_roundtrip_flights
22 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for search_oneway_flights, search_roundtrip_flights
22 Sep a tool description was rewritten search_roundtrip_flights
16 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten search_oneway_flights, search_roundtrip_flights
8 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten4 times that day search_oneway_flights, search_roundtrip_flights
7 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten search_oneway_flights, search_roundtrip_flights
7 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for search_oneway_flights, search_roundtrip_flights
5 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten search_oneway_flights, search_roundtrip_flights
and 8 more, back to 17 August 2026

Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 61.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add google-flights-mcp --transport http https://google-flights-mcp.flightpowers.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-flights-mcp": {
      "url": "https://google-flights-mcp.flightpowers.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.google-flights-mcp]
url = "https://google-flights-mcp.flightpowers.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-flights-mcp": {
      "url": "https://google-flights-mcp.flightpowers.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-flights-mcp": {
      "url": "https://google-flights-mcp.flightpowers.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

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

oneway
search_oneway_flights
FlightPowers one-way fare search: live prices read from Google Flights. Input: origin and destination IATA codes -- the destination may be several codes, as "BCN,LIS,ATH" or ["BCN","LIS","ATH"] -- plus either one departure date or a date range. Returns each flight's price, airline, duration, stops, a bookable buy_link, and Google's historical price range (price_insights_low / price_insights_high) so you can say whether a fare is actually a good deal. Use it for any one-way fare question, including open-ended ones. For a flexible search make ONE call with a date range and/or several destinations -- do NOT call it once per date. 'Cheapest flight to Sri Lanka anywhere in October' is one call, not thirty. Each date/destination combination is one billed request; the count and the plan's remaining quota come back in `api_usage`. `by_destination` carries one entry per destination you asked for -- empty ones included, each with a `reason` -- so read it before telling a user a destination has no flights. Requires the caller's own RapidAPI key for the Google Flights Live API. Get one (free tier available) at https://rapidapi.com/mtnrabi/api/google-flights-live-api, then pass it as an `x-rapidapi-key` header (preferred), a `?rapidapi_key=` query parameter on the server URL, or your client's own API key field -- first non-empty wins. Usage counts against the caller's own RapidAPI plan, not ours; every response reports what it spent and what is left in `api_usage`. No key? Sign in with Google and the first 10 searches each day are free on this server -- ad-free, nothing to paste. Connect your own RapidAPI key at https://flights.flightpowers.com/connect to remove the cap.
roundtrip
search_roundtrip_flights
FlightPowers round-trip fare search: live prices read from Google Flights, priced as paired legs rather than two separate one-ways. Input: origin and destination IATA codes -- the destination may be several codes, as "BCN,LIS,ATH" or ["BCN","LIS","ATH"] -- a departure date or range, and either a return date or a trip length in nights. Returns the total price for both legs, per-leg airline, stops and duration, and a single bookable buy_link for the trip. Use it for any return-trip fare question. For a flexible search make ONE call: pass departure_date_from / departure_date_to for the outbound range and `nights` instead of return_date to compare trip lengths -- '5 to 7 nights in Rome sometime in May' is one call. A WHOLE MONTH is one call too. departure_date_from "2026-10-01", departure_date_to "2026-10-31" and nights [3, 4, 5] prices every departure day in October at three trip lengths and tells you which combination is cheapest. That is 93 date/night combinations and the cap rises to cover them by itself -- do not narrow the question to make it fit, and do not split it into several calls. Each date/night/destination combination is ONE request billed to the caller's plan, so a month at three trip lengths costs 93 of them and the same month across two destinations costs 186. Say that number before running a search that large if the user has not asked for it in so many words. A search that fails with a server error is retried once and RapidAPI bills the retry, so the figure to quote back is `api_usage.hub_requests_billed` (what the plan was actually charged), not the combination count. Both come back in `api_usage`, with the plan's remaining quota. `by_destination` carries one entry per destination you asked for -- empty ones included, each with a `reason` -- so read it before telling a user a destination has no flights. Requires the caller's own RapidAPI key for the Google Flights Live API. Get one (free tier available) at https://rapidapi.com/mtnrabi/api/google-flights-live-api, then pass it as an `x-rapidapi-key` header (preferred), a `?rapidapi_key=` query parameter on the server URL, or your client's own API key field -- first non-empty wins. Usage counts against the caller's own RapidAPI plan, not ours; every response reports what it spent and what is left in `api_usage`. No key? Sign in with Google and the first 10 searches each day are free on this server -- ad-free, nothing to paste. Connect your own RapidAPI key at https://flights.flightpowers.com/connect to remove the cap.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

find_hotel_by_name
removed 18 Aug 2026
search_hotels
removed 18 Aug 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://google-flights-mcp.flightpowers.com/mcp streamable-http answering 290 ms 11 min ago

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Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: search_oneway_flights, search_roundtrip_flights. 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 Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 64 of 92 checks got a reply (69.6%), average response time 219 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) ever remove tools?
Yes. find_hotel_by_name, search_hotels are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
How do I connect Flight Search (Real-Time Fares)?
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 Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) need an API key?
No. Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Flight Search (Real-Time Fares)?
It answers our handshake in 219 ms on average, which is faster than 57% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Flight Search (Real-Time Fares) open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, 4 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.