# Wikipedia Airports

Discover destinations served from any airport via Wikipedia.

- Repository: https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (839 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-26
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill wikipedia-airports -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill wikipedia-airports -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill wikipedia-airports -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill wikipedia-airports -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit`

## Description

Discover destinations served from any airport via Wikipedia. Sanity-check whether an airline flies a specific route, find regional service that fare tools miss, identify late-split-return airport options.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Wikipedia Airports

Use Wikipedia as a **route discovery and sanity-check source** for airport destinations. This is especially useful when:

- an airport page has an **Airlines and destinations** section
- an airline's own city-pair marketing pages confirm service patterns
- flight search tools disagree about whether a route exists

Wikipedia is **not a booking source** and not a real-time schedule source. Use it to discover likely routes, then confirm them with airline or fare tools.

## Best Use Cases

- "What destinations does SAN serve?"
- "Does Southwest fly SAN -> EUG?"
- "What airports can I use for a late split return?"
- "Which airline serves this small airport nonstop?"

## Workflow

### 1. Resolve the airport page from an IATA code

Use Wikipedia search with the airport code plus the word `airport`.

```bash
curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=SAN+airport&format=json" \
  | jq '.query.search[0:5][] | {title}'
```

Usually the first result is the airport page, e.g. `San Diego International Airport`.

### 2. Fetch the page

Use the readable page HTML or the wikitext parse API.

```bash
curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=San_Diego_International_Airport&prop=wikitext&formatversion=2&format=json" \
  | jq -r '.parse.wikitext'
```

Or fetch the rendered page:

```bash
curl -Ls "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_International_Airport"
```

### 3. Look for route sections

Search for headings like:

- `Airlines and destinations`
- `Destinations`
- `Passenger`
- `Airlines`

Example:

```bash
curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=San_Diego_International_Airport&prop=wikitext&formatversion=2&format=json" \
  | jq -r '.parse.wikitext' \
  | rg -n "Airlines and destinations|Destinations|Passenger|Southwest|Eugene|Portland"
```

### 4. Treat airline city-pair pages as a second source

If the airport page is incomplete, use airline route pages to validate the pattern.

The rest: https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/blob/HEAD/plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/wikipedia-airports/SKILL.md