> Let ChatGPT, Claude or your own agent search flights and buy an onward ticket, over MCP or an HTTP API paid in USDC with the Machine Payments Protocol

# Onward tickets for AI agents

Let ChatGPT, Claude or your own agent search flights and buy an onward ticket, over MCP or an HTTP API paid in USDC with the Machine Payments Protocol

## 🤖 Ask your AI to do it

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant that can browse the web, fill in the brackets, and it'll find flights and get you a ticket.

```
I need an onward flight ticket (proof of onward travel) for my trip. Get me one from https://onward.flights – read https://onward.flights/llms.txt first, it explains how.

- I'm flying into: [CITY OR COUNTRY]
- I arrive on: [DATE]
- The airline I'm flying in with: [AIRLINE]
- My name, as on my passport: [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME]

Find a few one-way flights out of that country a week or two after I arrive, with a different airline from the one I'm flying in with, to a different country from the one I'm coming from. Show me the options with times and airlines, then buy the one I choose (it's about $5 in USDC). If you can't pay, send me the link so I can pay myself.
```

## MCP server

Add Onward Flights as a tool so your agent can search flights and buy tickets itself. It's a remote MCP server with no sign up or API key.

Server URL

```
https://onward.flights/mcp
```

Claude Code

```
claude mcp add --transport http onward-flights https://onward.flights/mcp
```

Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop and others

```
{"mcpServers": {"onward-flights": {"type": "http", "url": "https://onward.flights/mcp"}}}
```

In ChatGPT or Claude on the web, add it as a custom connector with the server URL.

Tools: `find_airports`, `search_flights` and `buy_ticket`.

## Let your bot pay

Tickets are paid for with the [Machine Payments Protocol](https://paymentauth.org), so an agent with a wallet can buy without a human. A ticket costs $5 in USDC on Base, Ethereum, Optimism or Polygon.

1. Calling `buy_ticket`, or `POST /api/purchase`, without payment returns the price, the wallet address and a payment challenge for each chain (JSON-RPC error `-32042`, or HTTP `402` with `WWW-Authenticate: Payment`).
2. The agent sends the USDC to `0xF846dbB11d80E5065B4f7566C803bbA79eA0eE53`.
3. Once it's mined, the agent calls again with the transaction hash, either as an MPP credential or plain `tx_hash` and `chain`. The payment is checked on-chain, and it gets back the ticket link and PDF with a receipt.

No wallet? The agent gets a link the human can open to pay in their browser.

## HTTP API

```
curl 'https://onward.flights/api/airports?q=bangkok'
curl 'https://onward.flights/api/flights?origin=BKK&destination=SIN&date=2026-11-10'
curl -X POST https://onward.flights/api/purchase \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"ticket_id": "…", "first_name": "Jane", "last_name": "Doe"}'
# 402 Payment Required, pay, then repeat with
# -H 'Authorization: Payment <credential>'
# or add "tx_hash": "0x…", "chain": "base" to the JSON
```

Docs for LLMs: [llms.txt](https://onward.flights/llms.txt). OpenAPI with MPP discovery: [openapi.json](https://onward.flights/openapi.json). Every page is also Markdown if you add `.md` to the URL.