FlightMCP — Airline Flight Search & Points Value Comparison

An MCP server that searches airline flights across cash and award (miles) pricing, calculates cents-per-point (CPP) value, and surfaces deals from the PointsBazaar P2P miles marketplace. Built with mcp-use and designed to run inside MCP clients like ChatGPT.

Deployed URLs

• MCP Server: https://throbbing-sound-b8zey.run.mcp-use.com/mcp
• Inspector: Open Inspector

What It Does

• Unified flight search — Searches China Airlines for both cash fares and Dynasty Flyer award availability in a single query
• CPP analysis — Compares cash price vs. miles redemption to show you the cents-per-point value of each booking option
• Miles marketplace — Searches PointsBazaar for third-party miles listings so you can find cheaper points to book award flights
• Rich UI widgets — Returns interactive React tables with sorting, filtering, and detailed breakdowns directly in the chat

Tools

Tool	Description
search-flights	Search flights with side-by-side cash vs. miles pricing and CPP analysis
get-flight-details	Get detailed info for a specific flight
search-points-listings	Search PointsBazaar marketplace for airline miles deals
get-listing-details	Get details for a specific marketplace listing
dynasty-flyer-login	Authenticate with China Airlines Dynasty Flyer (persists across sessions)

Getting Started

npm install
npm run dev

• http://localhost:3000/mcp — MCP protocol endpoint
• http://localhost:3000/inspector — Interactive testing UI

Environment Variables

Variable	Description
BROWSERBASE_API_KEY	Browserbase API key for browser automation
BROWSERBASE_PROJECT_ID	Browserbase project ID
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY	Firecrawl API key for PointsBazaar scraping

Architecture

index.ts                  → MCP server entry, tool registration
src/services/             → Search orchestration & caching
lib/china-airlines/       → Cash flight search (Playwright + Browserbase)
lib/china-airlines-award/ → Award search via Dynasty Flyer
lib/points-bazaar/        → PointsBazaar marketplace scraping (Firecrawl)
resources/                → React widgets (flight results, points listings)

Flight searches use Browserbase for managed browser sessions with residential proxies, intercepting airline API responses for reliable data extraction.

Stack

mcp-use, React 19, TypeScript, Playwright, Browserbase, Firecrawl, Tailwind CSS v4, Zod

Deploy

npm run deploy