CyberFvde/agent-skills

Flight search

Find every real way to fly the route, verify each one against a live source, then price it.

Inputs

Ask only for what's missing:

• Origin and destination (city or airport code)
• Dates and flexibility (exact, plus or minus days, or a whole month)
• One-way, round trip, or multi-city
• Travelers, cabin, checked bags
• Limits: max stops, max layover, nonstop only, airlines to avoid

Rules

• Never state a price, seat availability, schedule, or flight number without a live source checked in this session. Link it.
• Treat your own knowledge and any AI route list as leads. Verify each lead before presenting it.
• Label anything you couldn't verify as "unverified". Never fill gaps with guesses.
• If you can't load a site, say so and give the user the exact search to run there.
• Times in am/pm, local time at each airport.
• Prices move fast. Note when each price was checked.

Workflow

Work in order. Stop once a flight prices well and passes step 7. For long-haul trips, always run step 4 before recommending anything.

1. Route scan

• Search each airport's Wikipedia page ("Airlines and destinations" table) and airline route maps.
• List every airline and hub connecting origin to destination: nonstop, one-stop via hubs, seasonal routes, fifth-freedom flights (a third-country airline flying between two foreign airports), and small regional carriers.
• Keep a source link for each lead. Mark the ones you're unsure of.

2. Verify the route

• Confirm each lead on FlightConnections.com and note the hubs.
• Get operating days and flight numbers from FlightConnections or the airline's own timetable or booking flow.
• Drop leads you can't verify and list them separately.

3. Baseline price

• Google Flights for the dates. Note which verified airlines are missing from its results.
• Skiplagged for hidden-city fares. Flag the limits: carry-on only, one-way only, and airlines can penalize the practice.

4. Airline sites direct

• Search every verified airline that was missing or unavailable in step 3 on its own site.
• If one ticket shows unavailable, try multi-city: origin to hub, then hub to destination.
• Still blocked: price two separate one-ways with at least 3 hours at the hub (4 if checking bags internationally).
• For long-haul, check the main hub carriers directly:
  • Africa: Ethiopian (ADD), Qatar (DOH), Emirates (DXB), Turkish (IST), KLM (AMS)
  • Asia: Qatar (DOH), Emirates (DXB), Singapore (SIN), Cathay Pacific (HKG), EVA Air (TPE), Korean Air (ICN)
  • Europe: Lufthansa (FRA), Air France (CDG), British Airways (LHR), Turkish (IST), Icelandair (KEF)
  • Latin America: Copa (PTY), Avianca (BOG), LATAM (GRU, SCL)

5. ITA Matrix (troubleshooting only)

Use it when a verified flight won't price, to compare multi-airline combos, or to check fare buckets. Matrix can't book and doesn't carry every airline.

• Go to matrix.itasoftware.com and open Show Advanced Controls.
• Uncheck "Only show flights and prices with available seats" to list every flight that exists. Check it again to see what's bookable.
• Routing codes:

Code	What it does
X:ADD	Connect in Addis Ababa
C:ET+	One or more flights marketed by Ethiopian
O:ET	A flight operated by Ethiopian (no codeshares)
N:ET	Nonstop on Ethiopian
/ minconnect 120; maxconnect 1440	Layovers between 2 and 24 hours

• Swap in the real airport and airline codes from step 2.
• An international layover over 24 hours prices as a stopover. Search those as multi-city instead of raising maxconnect.
• Set cabin with the cabin dropdown. Don't use -NOFIRST or -COACH; they aren't ITA codes.

6. Small carriers and combos

• Run Kiwi.com and Skyscanner for regional, bush, and budget carriers and for mixed-airline self-transfer combos Google won't build.
• Use them to find the connection, then book each leg on the operating airline's own site.

7. Verify before booking

• Confirm each flight number operates on the travel dates (FlightAware, Flightradar24, or the airline's timetable).
• Compare total cost including bags and seat fees.
• Prefer one ticket for the whole trip, bought from the airline selling it. Splitting a single-ticket itinerary drops missed-connection protection.
• For separate tickets, flag: no protection if the first flight is late, checked bags must be rechecked, and rechecking may mean clearing immigration at the hub, so check that country's visa or transit rules.

Output

1. Top options table (up to 5): route, airlines and flight numbers, days and times (am/pm local), total price with source link and time checked, one ticket or separate.
2. Flights found outside Google Flights and where they were found.
3. Unverified leads.
4. Exact next steps for anything the user has to do themselves (for example, "On ethiopianairlines.com, search multi-city: [Origin] to ADD on [date], ADD to [Destination] on [date]").