INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

airline_fees

One airline's published extra fees (bags, seats, priority, check-in, changes, payment), each with the price range, when bought (at booking / later / airport), how it is charged, its source URL and the date checked.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://airfarebrain.com/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for airline_fees and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Potential side effects detected · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

A tool name or description suggests retrieving external content.
A tool name or description suggests a financial action.

Parent server

airfarebrain.com

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.airfare-brain]
url = "https://airfarebrain.com/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "airfare-brain": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://airfarebrain.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: airfare-brain
Remote MCP URL: https://airfarebrain.com/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "airfare-brain": {
      "url": "https://airfarebrain.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "airfare-brain": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://airfarebrain.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "airfare-brain",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://airfarebrain.com/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

get_capabilities — What Airfare Brain covers: airlines, how fees are researched and dated, what it does NOT do (no live fares, no booking), and the sister tool for car hire.
list_airlines — List every airline with a fee table: name, IATA code, the date its fees were checked, and its page.
true_cost — The true cost of a flight on one airline.