Validate a flight number and get terminal, airline, and arrival time

Validates a flight number and returns airline, arrival airport, terminal, and time. Use before booking to verify the flight and auto-detect terminal. Never blocks booking.

post/api/validate-flight

Request

  • Base URL: https://mcp.airport-pickups-london.com
  • URL: https://mcp.airport-pickups-london.com/api/validate-flight
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Request body

flight_numberstring required

Flight number (e.g. 'BA2534', 'EK007', 'AA38')

datestring required

Flight date in YYYY-MM-DD format

Example request

{
  "flight_number": "BA2534",
  "date": "2026-04-15"
}

Response

Flight validation result

validboolean

Whether the flight was found and verified

airlinestring

Airline name (e.g. 'British Airways')

flight_numberstring

Normalised flight number (e.g. 'BA2534')

arrival_airportstring

Arrival airport name (e.g. 'Heathrow')

arrival_terminalstring

Arrival terminal (e.g. 'T5', 'North')

arrival_timestring

Scheduled arrival time in HH:MM format

departure_airportstring

Departure airport IATA code (e.g. 'JFK')

sourcestring

Data source — 'flightstats' (live API) or 'static_mapping' (airline terminal database)

messagestring

Error message when valid is false

Changes

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