alliances

alliances is a skill for Claude Code from borski/travel-hacking-toolkit. It costs 39 tokens per session (546 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Reference information about airline alliances and partnerships. Alliances are groups of airlines whose loyalty programs often let members book flights across the group, while some airlines also have separate partnerships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map airlines to programs such as Star Alliance, oneworld, and SkyTeam, including cross-alliance and bilateral booking relationships.
Why use it?
It helps identify which points programs can book a particular airline. This avoids recommending a loyalty program that cannot issue the desired ticket.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the travel-hacker plugin — 48 skills, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to map airlines to programs such as Star Alliance, oneworld, and SkyTeam, including cross-alliance and bilateral booking relationships.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit/alliances
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add borski/travel-hacking-toolkit --skill alliances
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install travel-hacker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 546 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00039 $0.00546
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00273
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00055

Measured 9d ago against content hash 120c5af454fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alliances scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/travel-hacking-toolkit/skills/alliances/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Alliance Awareness

Reference data: data/alliances.json

Star Alliance, oneworld, and SkyTeam determine which loyalty programs can book which airlines. This is fundamental to award travel. When recommending an award booking, always verify the airline and the booking program are in the same alliance (or have a bilateral partnership).

Key Booking Relationships

  • United MileagePlus books Star Alliance (ANA, Lufthansa, Singapore, Turkish, etc.)
  • Aeroplan books Star Alliance plus extended partners (including Etihad, Emirates on some routes)
  • Virgin Atlantic Flying Club books ANA, Delta, Air France, KLM (cross-alliance)
  • AAdvantage books oneworld (Cathay, JAL, Qantas, Qatar, BA, etc.)
  • Flying Blue books SkyTeam (Air France, KLM, Delta, Korean Air, etc.)
  • Korean Air SKYPASS books SkyTeam
  • Avianca LifeMiles books Star Alliance (often cheaper than United/Aeroplan)

Recent Alliance Changes

Verify against data/alliances.json for current state. These have shifted recently:

  • SAS moved from Star Alliance to SkyTeam (September 2024)
  • ITA Airways left SkyTeam (early 2025), joining Star Alliance (first half 2026)
  • Fiji Airways upgraded to full oneworld member (2025)
  • Hawaiian Airlines joining oneworld (April 2026)

Cross-Alliance Bookings Are Where Real Value Hides

The best redemptions often involve booking an airline through a program in a DIFFERENT alliance (or no alliance at all). Always check the cross_alliance_highlights section of data/alliances.json and data/partner-awards.json.

Examples of cross-alliance plays:

  • Virgin Atlantic Flying Club books ANA First Class (legendary sweet spot)
  • Etihad Guest books AAdvantage routes
  • Alaska Mileage Plan books Starlux (independent airline)

Partner Awards Reference

For the full picture of which programs ticket which airlines, plus bilateral partnerships outside alliances, load the partner-awards skill or read data/partner-awards.json directly.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 45 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 120c5af454fc

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alliances is a skill published in the GitHub repository borski/travel-hacking-toolkit (654 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 546 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.