# FlightAware MCP (remote · mcp.wondel.ai)

Live flight status and scheduled-route search via the official FlightAware AeroAPI.

- Trust score: 58/100 (low)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `mcp.wondel.ai`: 58/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-wondel-flightaware/flightaware-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-wondel-flightaware/flightaware-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 46/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 2 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 56/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 483 tokens (~241/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the FlightAware MCP server?

FlightAware MCP is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ai-wondel-flightaware 'https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-wondel-flightaware": {
      "url": "https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-wondel-flightaware": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-wondel-flightaware]
url = "https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ai-wondel-flightaware": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-wondel-flightaware --url 'https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-wondel-flightaware:
    url: "https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-wondel-flightaware": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-wondel-flightaware -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-wondel-flightaware": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 58, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 57, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-02 (score 56)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `flightaware_flight_status` (~166 tokens)

FlightAware flight status (AeroAPI)

Live or planned status of a flight via the official FlightAware AeroAPI: times (scheduled/estimated/actual), delays, gates/terminals, aircraft, progress, cancelled/diverted flags, plus flightaware.com tracking links. Operational data, not prices. Requires the FLIGHTAWARE_API_KEY secret; each call bills AeroAPI usage.

Input parameters:

- `ident` (string, required): Flight ident: IATA number (LO281), ICAO number (BAW123), or tail/registration (SP-LVD).
- `max_pages` (integer): AeroAPI pagination cap — how many result pages to fetch (each page bills separately). Default 1.
- `no_cache` (boolean): Force a fresh AeroAPI fetch and bypass this server's result cache. Default false.

### `flightaware_search_scheduled` (~211 tokens)

FlightAware scheduled flights on a route (AeroAPI)

Scheduled (future) flights between two airports in a date window via the official FlightAware AeroAPI /schedules endpoint: ident, operator, scheduled out/in times and aircraft type per flight. Use it to see what actually flies a route on given days; it returns no prices. Requires the FLIGHTAWARE_API_KEY secret; each call bills AeroAPI usage.

Input parameters:

- `date_end` (string, required): Window end date, YYYY-MM-DD (exclusive per AeroAPI semantics).
- `date_start` (string, required): Window start date, YYYY-MM-DD.
- `destination` (string, required): Destination airport IATA or ICAO code.
- `max_pages` (integer): AeroAPI pagination cap — how many result pages to fetch (each page bills separately). Default 1.
- `no_cache` (boolean): Force a fresh AeroAPI fetch and bypass this server's result cache. Default false.
- `origin` (string, required): Origin airport IATA or ICAO code (e.g. WAW or EPWA).

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-wondel-flightaware/flightaware-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 58
- 2026-11-04: 57
- 2026-11-03: 57
- 2026-11-02: 56

## Common questions

### What is the FlightAware MCP server?

FlightAware MCP is listed in the public MCP registry as ai.wondel/flightaware. Live flight status and scheduled-route search via the official FlightAware AeroAPI. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp).

### Is the FlightAware MCP server safe to use?

FlightAware MCP scores 58 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the FlightAware MCP server expose?

FlightAware MCP exposes 2 tools: flightaware_flight_status, flightaware_search_scheduled. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 377 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the FlightAware MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to FlightAware MCP without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the FlightAware MCP server still maintained?

FlightAware MCP is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://mcp.wondel.ai/flightaware/mcp
- Website: https://mcps.wondel.ai/servers/flightaware/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-wondel-flightaware/flightaware-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-wondel-flightaware/flightaware-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-wondel-flightaware/flightaware-mcp