# Aviation Intelligence Q&A (aviation.x402.press)

> Aviation Intelligence Q&A (aviation.x402.press) is a paid API for AI agents from aviation.x402.press, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Answers natural-language questions about flights, aviation weather (METAR/TAF), jet streams, and airports by synthesizing multiple live data sources in parallel.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://aviation.x402.press/aviation/ask
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/aviation-intelligence-q-a-aviation-x402-press-4d5eb79c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Q6f82xrcXpAwZ-UdXvFIv

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability aviation-intelligence-q-a-aviation-x402-press-4d5eb79c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What are the current METAR conditions and TAF forecast at KJFK, and are there any jet stream winds that could affect a flight from New York to London this afternoon?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a synthesized, reasoned answer to a complex aviation question that may require combining multiple data types (weather + flight status + airport info) simultaneously. It is especially useful when you don't want to call separate weather, flight-tracking, and airport APIs individually and stitch results together yourself. Prefer it over single-source flight APIs when the question involves weather context, jet streams, or multi-factor reasoning.

## Known failure modes

- Ambiguous question may yield a generic or incomplete answer
- Real-time data sources may be temporarily unavailable, resulting in partial answers
- Very specific or obscure airports/flights may have limited data coverage
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) results in 402 response before processing
- Extremely high query volume may increase latency

## How this service works

Premium multi-source aviation intelligence: ask natural-language questions about flights, aviation weather (METAR/TAF), jet streams, and airports. Returns a reasoned answer by synthesising multiple live data sources in parallel.

## Output

A reasoned, synthesized natural-language answer that draws on multiple live aviation data sources including METAR observations, TAF forecasts, flight status feeds, jet stream data, and airport information — providing a coherent response rather than raw data dumps.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "icao": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "ICAO airport code — optional."
  },
  "method": {
   "type": "string",
   "const": "POST"
  },
  "latitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Latitude — optional, extracted from question if omitted."
  },
  "question": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Natural language aviation question."
  },
  "longitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Longitude — optional, extracted from question if omitted."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/aviation-intelligence-q-a-aviation-x402-press-4d5eb79c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from aviation.x402.press](https://www.zero.xyz/host/aviation.x402.press/llms.txt)