# Oblique Markets Award Flight Search

> Oblique Markets Award Flight Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.oblique.markets, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Validates and normalizes an award flight search request (origins, destinations, date window, cabin class, passengers) into a stable machine-readable format without claiming live inventory.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.oblique.markets/api/v1/paid/award-flight-search
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/oblique-markets-award-flight-search-f97cef71
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Yu3yRckeFQ-Mw-6UttOOs

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 oblique-markets-award-flight-search-f97cef71 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search for award flights from JFK and EWR to LHR and CDG in business class for 2 passengers between June 10 and June 20, and give me a clean, normalized result I can use to query availability.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to validate and normalize award flight search parameters into a stable, machine-readable format before passing them to downstream inventory or availability systems. It is ideal for agents building award travel search pipelines that need a clean, consistent request/response shape without coupling to live inventory. Prefer this over ad-hoc validation logic when you need a paid, structured service that enforces schema correctness for award-specific fields like cabin class and multi-airport origin/destination arrays.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid airport IATA codes in origin or destination arrays
- end_date earlier than start_date
- Unsupported cabin class value outside the enum (economy, premium_economy, business, first)
- Zero or negative passenger count
- Missing required fields such as origin_airports or destination_airports
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance for the $0.02 fee

## How this service works

Use when an agent needs award flight search. Returns Validate and normalize an award-flight search (origins, destinations, date window, cabin, passengers) into a stable machine-readable request and response shape, without claiming inventory Oblique does not hold. $0.02.

## Output

A validated, normalized machine-readable award flight search object containing structured origins, destinations, cabin class, date range, and passenger count. The response confirms the search parameters are well-formed and consistent, without asserting live seat inventory or actual award availability.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "cabin": {
   "enum": [
    "economy",
    "premium_economy",
    "business",
    "first"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "end_date": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "passengers": {
   "type": "integer"
  },
  "start_date": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "origin_airports": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "string"
   }
  },
  "destination_airports": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "string"
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "note": "Oblique holds no award-inventory credentials; this route preserves the machine-search shape without fabricating award availability.",
  "count": 0,
  "search": {
   "cabin": "economy",
   "end_date": "2026-09-07",
   "passengers": 1,
   "start_date": "2026-09-01",
   "origin_airports": [
    "JFK"
   ],
   "destination_airports": [
    "LAX"
   ]
  },
  "source": "oblique_request_normalizer",
  "results": [],
  "availability": "not_claimed",
  "generated_at": "2026-08-25T12:00:00.000Z"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/oblique-markets-award-flight-search-f97cef71/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.oblique.markets](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.oblique.markets/llms.txt)