flighty-mcp

A read-only MCP server that exposes your personal Flighty app flight data as geo-ready legs with departure and arrival coordinates. Query your flight history by date, year, or flight number; browse aggregate stats (distance, unique airports/airlines, top routes).

Credit: inspired by LukasHaas/flighty-mcp for the original idea.

Tools

list_my_flights

List your own flights as geo-ready legs (departure/arrival airports with coordinates).

Arguments:

• year (optional): Filter to a calendar year (e.g. 2025).
• after (optional): Only flights departing on/after this ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD).
• before (optional): Only flights departing before this ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD).
• limit (optional): Maximum number of legs to return (default 200, newest first).

Returns: List of leg objects with this structure:

{
  "date": "2025-06-23",
  "flight_no": "UA194",
  "airline": {
    "iata": "UA",
    "name": "United Airlines"
  },
  "from": {
    "iata": "SFO",
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "country": "United States",
    "lat": 37.6213,
    "lon": -122.379
  },
  "to": {
    "iata": "JFK",
    "city": "New York",
    "country": "United States",
    "lat": 40.6413,
    "lon": -73.7781
  },
  "departure": "2025-06-23T10:30:00",
  "arrival": "2025-06-24T01:15:00Z"
}

get_flight

Get your most recent flight leg matching a flight number (e.g. "UA194").

Arguments:

• flight_no: The flight number (case- and space-insensitive).

Returns: A single leg object (or null if no match found).

flight_stats

Aggregate stats over your flights: counts, distance, unique airports/airlines, and top routes.

Arguments:

• year (optional): Filter stats to a calendar year. Omit for all-time.

Returns: Stats object with this structure:

{
  "flights": 42,
  "distance_km": 18500.5,
  "unique_airports": 15,
  "unique_airlines": 5,
  "top_routes": [
    { "route": "SFO -> JFK", "count": 8 },
    { "route": "JFK -> SFO", "count": 7 }
  ],
  "top_airlines": [
    { "iata": "UA", "name": "United Airlines", "count": 12 }
  ],
  "year": "all_time"
}

animate_trip

Build a flight-animator route link for your trip to a place.

Resolves the connected flights from your home (or origin) to destination and returns shareable links: url (one-way trip) and round_trip_url (there and back). May instead return a resolution prompt with status ambiguous_destination, confirm_home, or no_match.

Arguments:

• destination: Where the trip goes — IATA code, city, or country (e.g. "Japan", "NRT").
• origin (optional): Starting location — IATA code, city, or country. Defaults to your inferred home (most common departure airport).
• after (optional): ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD); only trips departing on/after it.
• before (optional): ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD); only trips departing before it.

Example: "animate my flight to Japan"

Returns: If successful, a dict with keys status (always "ok"), url, round_trip_url (if a return is found), home, destination, stops (summary), start_date, end_date, leg_count, and home_confidence. On ambiguity or mismatch, returns status with one of: no_match (no flights match criteria), ambiguous_destination (multiple cities match the destination), or confirm_home (inferred home confidence is low—returns top alternatives for confirmation).

Route link format: the ?d= value is base64url of {"v":1,"stops":[…]} (the versioned envelope shared with flight-animator's decoder). Each stop carries code, lat, lon, label, and optional arrive/depart (ISO 8601). We always embed lat/lon so the animator needs no airport-table lookup and so points outside its bundled dataset still render — consumers should prefer the embedded coordinates over resolving the code.

Installation

claude mcp add flighty -- uv --directory /path/to/flighty-mcp run flighty-mcp

Configuration

Variable	Default	Description
FLIGHTY_DB_PATH	$HOME/Library/Containers/com.flightyapp.flighty/Data/Documents/MainFlightyDatabase.db	Path to the Flighty app's SQLite database.
FLIGHTY_USER_ID	Auto-detected from UserProfile table	The Flighty user ID to query (normally auto-detected; set only if overriding).
FLIGHT_ANIMATOR_BASE_URL	https://flights.sailingnaturali.com	Base URL for animate_trip route links (consumed by the companion flight-animator app).

Full Disk Access Requirement

Important: The MCP server needs macOS Full Disk Access to read the Flighty database.

Symptom: If the server fails to connect or reads hang indefinitely, it's likely because Full Disk Access is missing.

Solution:

1. Open System Preferences → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access.
2. Add the app that will launch this server:
   • If using Claude Desktop, add Claude.app.
   • If using Claude Code CLI or Terminal, add /Applications/Terminal.app (or whatever terminal app you use).
   • If using a different tool, add that application.
3. Restart the app (or kill and relaunch it).
4. Try again.

The database lives at ~/Library/Containers/com.flightyapp.flighty/Data/Documents/, which is in your user's private container — Full Disk Access is required for any application to read it.