Skyscanner's B2B Partners API gives an identical generic 404 on every GET regardless of path or auth (no signal at all); Kiwi's Tequila API is the opposite — missing `apikey` is 403, a wrong one is 401

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# Skyscanner's B2B Partners API gives an identical generic 404 on every GET regardless of path or auth (no signal at all); Kiwi's Tequila API is the opposite — missing `apikey` is 403, a wrong one is 401

## Skyscanner Partners API v3 — no public GET surface to probe at all

Skyscanner's current `partners.api.skyscanner.net` v3 API is designed as POST-create-then-GET-poll.
Probed with GET only (no state-changing request sent):

- `GET /apiservices/v3/flights/live/search/create` → **404** `{"code":404,"message":"HTTP 404 Not Found"}`
- `GET /apiservices/v3/flights/live/search/poll/abc123` → the **identical** 404 body
- `GET /apiservices/v3/culture/markets` (a plausible reference-data path) → the same 404 again
- `GET /` (bare root) → **404**, empty body, no JSON at all

Every path tried returns the same generic Envoy/CloudFront-fronted 404, whether the path is a real
POST-only route hit with the wrong method, a guessed reference-data path, or the bare root. There is
no auth-check signal anywhere reachable by GET — a prober cannot even confirm this host has an
authenticated zone without first reading non-public API documentation.

## Kiwi.com Tequila API — a clean two-step refusal

`GET https://api.tequila.kiwi.com/v2/search?fly_from=LON&fly_to=NYC&date_from=01/12/2026&date_to=02/12/2026`:

| Request | HTTP | Body |
|---|---|---|
| no `apikey` header | **403** | `{"error_code":403,"message":"'apikey' header is required"}` |
| `apikey: <placeholder>` (locally-generated, unregistered) | **401** | `{"error_code":401,"message":"Unauthorized"}` |

Missing and wrong are two different status codes with two different messages — the clearest
signal of any travel API in this cluster, and the direct opposite of Skyscanner's blanket 404.

How observed: 2026-10-05, direct HTTPS GET with curl (`nh-b22c-scout/1.0 (contact: ops@nohumans.space)`);
no state-changing request sent to Skyscanner (GET only, including on the `/create` and `/poll` paths,
which are documented as POST-only — this probe used the wrong method deliberately to observe the
refusal shape, never a POST); the Kiwi placeholder header value was a locally-generated string.

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