What is an Amadeus MCP?
It's an MCP server that lets your agents access Amadeus's global travel technology platform via tools. Your agents can invoke these tools to search and book flights, find and reserve hotels, look up activities at a destination, retrieve airport and airline data, and more.
Amadeus doesn't offer an MCP server purpose built for their travel APIs, but you can use one from a third-party platform, like Merge Agent Handler.
How can I use the Amadeus MCP server?
The use cases naturally depend on the agent you've built, but here are a few common ones:
- End-to-end trip booking: An agent takes a traveler's destination, dates, and preferences, searches Amadeus for matching flight and hotel options, presents the best combinations, and completes the booking on confirmation, all within a single chat interface
- Travel cost optimization: An agent searches multiple date and routing combinations using Amadeus flight inspiration and cheapest-date tools to identify the lowest-cost itinerary for a flexible traveler before presenting options for selection
- Corporate travel policy enforcement: An agent checks Amadeus flight and hotel options against a company's travel policy rules, filters out non-compliant results, and presents only approved options to the employee booking the trip
- Destination itinerary building: An agent combines Amadeus flight search, hotel availability, and activity search to assemble a full day-by-day itinerary for a destination, which it then delivers as a document or calendar invite
What are popular tools for Amadeus's MCP server?
Here are some of the most commonly used tools:
search_flight_offers: queries Amadeus for available flights between two airports on specified dates, returning pricing, routing, and availability. Useful for agents that need to surface flight options to a traveler or evaluate itinerary costs before presenting choices
price_flight_offers: confirms current pricing and availability for a specific flight offer before booking. Call this immediately before create_flight_order to ensure the fare returned in search is still valid
create_flight_order: books a priced flight offer for one or more passengers and returns a booking confirmation. Use this when an agent has confirmed passenger details and a selected fare and is ready to complete the reservation
search_hotel_offers: retrieves available hotel rooms by city, check-in and check-out dates, and guest count, with pricing and amenity details. Good for agents building multi-component itineraries that need hotel options alongside flights
create_hotel_booking: completes a hotel reservation for a selected offer and returns a confirmation number. Call this after an agent has presented hotel options and received confirmation from the traveler to proceed
search_activities: finds tours, experiences, and activities available at a destination. Helpful when an agent is building a full trip itinerary and needs to surface things to do after flights and accommodation are confirmed
What makes Merge Agent Handler's Amadeus MCP server better than alternative Amadeus MCP servers?
Merge Agent Handler's Amadeus MCP server offers several advantages over community-built alternatives or rolling your own:
- Enterprise-grade security and DLP: Merge Agent Handler includes built-in data loss prevention controls that let you block or redact sensitive fields before they reach an agent. For Amadeus, this means you can prevent passenger PII, payment details, and booking reference numbers from being exposed beyond the agent steps that genuinely require them
- Managed authentication and credentials: Merge stores and refreshes Amadeus credentials on your behalf. You never expose raw API keys or OAuth tokens to an agent or manage token rotation manually
- Real-time observability and audit trail: Every tool call made against Amadeus is logged with timestamp, tool name, input parameters, and response metadata. You can audit exactly what an agent searched, priced, or booked without instrumenting anything yourself
- Tool Packs and controlled access: Tool Packs let you bundle specific Amadeus tools with tools from other connectors into a single MCP endpoint, scoped to a specific use case. An agent gets exactly the tools it needs, nothing more
How can I start using Merge Agent Handler's Amadeus MCP server?
You can take the following steps:
1. Create or log into your Merge Agent Handler account.
2. Install the Merge CLI by running pipx install merge-api, then run merge configure to link the CLI to your Merge account and merge login to authenticate your session.
3. Register the Agent Handler MCP server with Claude Code by running claude mcp add --transport http agent-handler https://ah-api.merge.dev/mcp, then open Claude Code and run /mcp to confirm agent-handler appears with a connected status.
4. Select agent-handler from the MCP list. This opens a browser window where you select which integrations to authenticate. Choose Amadeus and complete the auth flow. Merge stores and manages the credentials going forward.
5. Open a Claude Code session and start querying Amadeus data directly. The first time you use an Amadeus tool, a Magic Link may appear to complete connector authentication.
If you want to connect Merge Agent Handler's Amadeus MCP with internal or customer-facing agentic products, you can follow the steps in our docs.