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Add travel plugin with cheap-business-class-finder skill#179

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@rsatyan rsatyan commented Apr 15, 2026

Summary

Adds a new travel plugin with a cheap-business-class-finder skill and /find-flights command.

  • Finds cheap business class flights using 8 creative pricing strategies: direct baseline, nearby airport arbitrage, ex-EU/Asia hub origination, multi-city routing, fifth-freedom flights, mistake fare detection, points/miles optimization, and date flexibility exploitation
  • Delivers ranked options as both a chat summary and a professional Excel spreadsheet
  • Uses Firecrawl for web search and scraping (configured in .mcp.json)
  • Saves users 30–70% vs. direct business class pricing through creative routing

Benchmark Results

Tested against 3 realistic scenarios (with-skill vs. without-skill baseline):

Test Case With Skill Without Skill Improvement
NYC → Tokyo (flexible dates, Chase UR) 7/7 (100%) 2/7 (29%) +71%
Chicago → Cape Town (2 pax, $3K budget) 7/7 (100%) 5/7 (71%) +29%
SFO → London (exact dates, Star Alliance) 7/7 (100%) 3/7 (43%) +57%
Average 100% 48% +52%

Test plan

  • Tested on 3 diverse route scenarios (popular, obscure, fixed-date)
  • Verified Excel output generation with formatting and conditional formatting
  • Confirmed creative routing strategies are consistently applied
  • Benchmarked with/without skill across all assertions
  • Community testing on additional routes and edge cases

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