Travel hacking assistant using Amadeus GDS data. Compares total trip costs (airfare + lodging), finds multi-city stopover deals, and builds side-by-side destination reports. USE WHEN user mentions travel, compare trips, stopover, flight cost, hotel search, trip planning, travel hacking, multi-city routing, or asks "how much would it cost to fly to..."
Travel cost optimization skill. Searches live GDS flight and hotel data via Amadeus Self-Service APIs, then synthesizes results into actionable comparison reports.
Claude Code is the agent. The Python tool (TravelTools.py) is a pure data
fetcher. All reasoning, sequencing, and synthesis happens here.
Booking separate one-way tickets on different airlines to create a cheaper combined routing than any single carrier offers. Amadeus returns these as multi-segment offers automatically.
Deliberately routing through a hub city with a multi-day layover to visit two cities for roughly the price of one. Best with airlines that offer free