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AI-powered travel hacking and search with cash, points, miles, and award flights. Drop-in skills and MCP servers for Claude, Codex, and OpenCode.

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Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI

by borski·Apr 4, 2026·95 points·41 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidNiche GemSolve My Problem

MCP servers search award flights and compare cash prices across 25+ mileage programs.

Strengths
  • •Five MCP servers work immediately with zero API keys required for basic functionality.
  • •Genuine multi-API integration across Seats.aero, Skiplagged, Kiwi, Trivago, and AwardWallet.
  • •Transfer partner ratio reference data built in for Chase UR, Amex MR, Bilt, Capital One.
Weaknesses
  • •Full functionality requires multiple paid API keys (Seats.aero Pro ~$8/mo, AwardWallet Business).
  • •Niche audience limits appeal—only matters if you're already deep on points/miles optimization.
Category
AI/ML
Target Audience

Travel hackers and points/miles enthusiasts who use AI coding assistants

Similar To

Seats.aero · AwardWallet · Google Flights

Post Description

I use points and miles for most of my travel. Every booking comes down to the same decision: use points or pay cash? To answer that, you need award availability across multiple programs, cash prices, your current balances, transfer partner ratios, and the math to compare them. I got tired of doing it manually across a dozen tabs.

This toolkit teaches Claude Code and OpenCode how to do it. 7 skills (markdown files with API docs and curl examples) and 6 MCP servers (real-time tools the AI calls directly).

It searches award flights across 25+ mileage programs (Seats.aero), compares cash prices (Google Flights, Skiplagged, Kiwi.com, Duffel), pulls your loyalty balances (AwardWallet), searches hotels (Trivago, LiteAPI, Airbnb, Booking.com), finds ferry routes across 33 countries, and looks up weird hidden gems near your destination (Atlas Obscura).

Reference data is included: transfer partner ratios for Chase UR, Amex MR, Bilt, Capital One, and Citi TY. Point valuations sourced from TPG, Upgraded Points, OMAAT, and View From The Wing. Alliance membership, sweet spot redemptions, booking windows, hotel chain brand lookups.

5 of the 6 MCP servers need zero API keys. Clone, run setup.sh, start searching.

Skills are, as usual, plain markdown. They work in OpenCode and Claude Code automatically (I added a tiny setup script), and they'll work in anything else that supports skills.

PRs welcome! Help me expand the toolkit! :)

https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

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