Airline Lookup Skill

Overview

Submit a two-letter IATA code or airline name to query a directory of over 5,000 airlines updated weekly. The response returns the carrier's registered country, trading aliases, ICAO code, callsign, and low-cost operator flag. Searching directly by ICAO code and retrieving logo image URLs require a paid plan.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as AirlineLookupSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "AirlineLookupSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "iata": "AA"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about AA in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for AirlineLookupSkill on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Argument	Type	Description
`iata`Required	string	The IATA code of the airline for which you want to get the information (e.g., AA)

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "American Airlines",
      "alias": null,
      "iata": "AA",
      "icao": "AAL",
      "callsign": "AMERICAN",
      "country": "United States",
      "id": "AA",
      "islowcost": false,
      "logourl": "https://storage.googleapis.com/apiverve/APIResources/arlinelookup/logos/AA.png?X-Goog-Algorithm=..."
    }
  ]
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`0`	array[1]
`0.name`	string	`American Airlines`	The official name of the airline
`0.alias`	object	`null`	Alternative name or trading name of airline
`0.iata`	string	`AA`	Two-letter IATA code for the airline
`0.icao`	string	`AAL`	Three-letter ICAO code for the airline
`0.callsign`	string	`AMERICAN`	Radio callsign used by the airline
`0.country`	string	`United States`	Country where the airline is registered
`0.id`	string	`AA`	Unique identifier for the airline record
`0.islowcost`	boolean	`false`	Whether the airline operates as low-cost carrier
`0.logourl`Premium	string	`https://storage.googleapis.com/apiverve/APIResources/arlinelookup/logos/AA.png?X-Goog-Algorithm=...`	URL to the airline's logo image

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Flight Itinerary Rendering: When formatting flight schedules, travel booking apps fetch full carrier names, ICAO codes, and radio callsigns from IATA codes stored in ticketing feeds.
Travel Expense Auditing: Finance software verifies carrier registration countries and low-cost operator status when processing corporate flight receipts and employee expense reports.
Fleet Radar Tracking: Aviation tracking dashboards map incoming transponder carrier identifiers to official trading aliases and radio callsigns before displaying live flights to users.
Carrier Code Disambiguation: To prevent booking mistakes, customer support portals search by airline name to confirm matched IATA codes before reissuing passenger tickets.

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