whentofly

whentofly: flexible-date economy/business flight search + price-level context for AI agents

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What it can do

    What data it sees

    Do you need an account

    No: the server works without sign-in

    whentofly: flexible-date economy/business flight search + price-level context for AI agents

    How to connect

    How to connect whentofly to Claude

    The server address to paste into Claude settings:

    https://whentofly.io/mcp?ch=mcp-registry

    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 whentofly to ChatGPT

    The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

    https://whentofly.io/mcp?ch=mcp-registry

    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 whentofly to Cursor

    The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

    https://whentofly.io/mcp?ch=mcp-registry

    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 (2)

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

    search_locationsResolve a city or airport name or code before searching flights. Returns typed values such as city:SHA to search every catalog airport in Shanghai or airport:SHA for Hongqiao only. Pass the selected value unchanged to search_flights. Ask the traveler when multiple results are plausible.
    search_flightsFind the cheapest round-trip across a FLEXIBLE multi-month date window with a min/max trip length — e.g. "10–15 days, anytime Sep–Nov". Search a broad date window rather than requiring the traveler to choose exact dates first. First call the search_locations MCP tool for city or airport names, then pass each returned airport:AAA or city:AAA value unchanged as origin/destination (explicit legacy IATA codes remain supported). Dates are OPTIONAL: add an earliest/latest window when the traveler has one, or omit them (or give just one side) and a sensible default window is searched — metadata.window_defaulted says so and query echoes the window used, so a dateless call always returns flights instead of an error. Add min/max trip duration; get back a ranked list of the cheapest fares (with booking links) plus a price verdict — an honest read of whether the cheapest fare is low, typical, or high versus the route's usual price, or unknown when we lack a usable typical-price band (a price-level read, not a buy-now-or-wait timing prediction). Non-economy requests may return action-bound Google Flights seller quotes or separate route-price evidence in metadata.route_price_check. For a specific route, set checked_bags=1 when the traveler needs one checked bag, then inspect each result's price_basis; anywhere discovery does not support baggage pricing. Checked-bag searches still run seller enrichment but set the fare-only verdict and metadata.route_price_check to null; verify=full does not override that boundary. Use it for any flight question where the dates are flexible, unknown, or the user wants the cheapest time to fly. If a window comes back thin or cannot fit the return, the search widens it one step itself and reports that in metadata.hints — no second call needed. A city:/airport: prefix that contradicts its code (city:CDG names an airport, airport:PAR names a city) is likewise searched as the identity the catalog does know, with a selector_corrected entry in metadata.h