AwardSecrets Award Availability

Award seat availability from a contracted GDS.

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What it can do

    What data it sees

    Do you need an account

    An API key from the service settings is required

    Award seat availability from a contracted GDS. One route, one airline, one date.

    How to connect

    How to connect AwardSecrets Award Availability to Claude

    The server address to paste into Claude settings:

    https://awardsecrets.com/mcp

    1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
    2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
    3. Click Add custom connector.
    4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
    5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

    Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

    Authorization

    After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

    How to connect AwardSecrets Award Availability to ChatGPT

    The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

    https://awardsecrets.com/mcp

    1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
    2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
    3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
    4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
    5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
    6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

    OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

    Authorization

    On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

    How to connect AwardSecrets Award Availability to Cursor

    The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

    https://awardsecrets.com/mcp

    Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

    Manually:

    1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
    2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
    3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

    Authorization

    If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

    Server tool list (1)

    Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

    search_award_availabilityLook up award (points/miles) seat availability for ONE specific flight route on ONE specific date with ONE specific airline, sourced from a contracted GDS rather than scraped. Returns the flights found with cabin and seat count. IMPORTANT — this tool is strictly literal. Every argument takes a single concrete value: • origin / destination: exactly one 3-letter IATA airport code each. Not a city, not a list, not a region. • airline: exactly one 2-letter IATA carrier code (e.g. VS, CX, NH). Not an alliance and not a loyalty programme. • date: exactly one date, YYYY-MM-DD. Not a range and not a month. To cover several airports, airlines or dates, CALL THIS TOOL ONCE PER COMBINATION and combine the results yourself. Award space is scarce and volatile, so an empty result for one date says nothing about another — checking several dates is normal and expected. Interpreting the result: • seats is an availability indicator, not a guaranteed bookable count, and not a reservation. Low counts are the more precise signal; treat higher ones as less certain. Do not present any count as a firm number of seats a user can book. • cabin is one of business, first, economy or premium_economy. • An empty result means no availability was surfaced for that exact combination at that moment; it is not proof that the route never has space. • Availability changes fast. Treat every result as a point-in-time observation, not a reservation. If the call is declined for want of an API key, say so plainly and point the user at https://awardsecrets.com/api.html — access is in limited release and keys are issued individually. Do not invent availability, and do not substitute a guess for a result you could not retrieve.