Qantas Airways Limited is Australia's flag carrier and, with its low-cost subsidiary Jetstar, one half of a domestic duopoly alongside Virgin Australia. In the distribution chain Qantas is the supplier of its own inventory — it sits upstream of the GDSs (Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport), the aggregators (Duffel, Travelfusion, Mystifly, Verteil, AirGateway, TPConnects, TravelSky) and the large Australian agency groups (Flight Centre, Corporate Travel Management, Webjet). Its API posture is distribution-only and fully gated. Qantas publishes no developer portal, no OpenAPI or Swagger definition, and no public consumer API; developer., developers., docs. and api.qantas.com.au do not resolve, and api.qantas.com returns 404 on every path probed. The one real API is the Qantas Distribution Platform (QDP) NDC XML API, built with Farelogix (now Accelya) and certified by IATA to NDC@Scale. It is documented in prose on Qantas Agency Connect but no endpoint, schema or specification is published; a technology partner must sign a Qantas Distribution Platform Access Agreement, subject to Qantas technical and commercial approval, before it is granted test-environment access, and an agency must hold IATA, ARC, TIDS or VTC accreditation. Public docs on how to get in, no public contract and no exit path.
Qantas is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Travel, Australia, Aviation, Airlines, and Distribution.
Qantas’ developer surface includes sandbox, developer portal, documentation, changelog, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 26 more developer resources.
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The Qantas Distribution Platform (QDP) is Qantas' NDC XML API for airline retailing — shopping, offer and order creation, ticketing, ancillaries and post-booking servicing of Qa...
Qantas API pricing
Prices published by Qantas.
Plan
Price
Premium NDC
Exempt
Standard NDC (via a Certified Technology Partner or the QDP portal)
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description: Qantas Airways Limited is Australia's flag carrier and, with its low-cost subsidiary Jetstar, one half of a domestic
duopoly alongside Virgin Australia. In the distribution chain Qantas is the supplier of its own inventory — it sits upstream
of the GDSs (Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport), the aggregators (Duffel, Travelfusion, Mystifly, Verteil, AirGateway, TPConnects,
TravelSky) and the large Australian agency groups (Flight Centre, Corporate Travel Management, Webjet). Its API posture
is distribution-only and fully gated. Qantas publishes no developer portal, no OpenAPI or Swagger definition, and no public
consumer API; developer., developers., docs. and api.qantas.com.au do not resolve, and api.qantas.com returns 404 on every
path probed. The one real API is the Qantas Distribution Platform (QDP) NDC XML API, built with Farelogix (now Accelya)
and certified by IATA to NDC@Scale. It is documented in prose on Qantas Agency Connect but no endpoint, schema or specification
is published; a technology partner must sign a Qantas Distribution Platform Access Agreement, subject to Qantas technical
and commercial approval, before it is granted test-environment access, and an agency must hold IATA, ARC, TIDS or VTC accreditation.
Public docs on how to get in, no public contract and no exit path.
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description: The Qantas Distribution Platform (QDP) is Qantas' NDC XML API for airline retailing — shopping, offer and order
creation, ticketing, ancillaries and post-booking servicing of Qantas (QF) content for travel agencies, GDSs and aggregators.
Built in partnership with Farelogix Inc. (now Accelya) on IATA's New Distribution Capability standard, and certified by
IATA to NDC@Scale. Qantas states the platform "does not have a customer-facing user interface" and is "designed to allow
Technology Partners to develop a connection to our NDC XML API". No endpoint host, no NDC schema version and no machine-readable
specification are published; access requires a signed Qantas Distribution Platform Access Agreement, and agencies must
hold IATA, ARC, TIDS or VTC accreditation. Agencies that cannot connect through a Certified Technology Partner may instead
use the QDP portal, a web UI powered by Accelya NDC SPRK.
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tags:
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- Offers and Orders
- Ticketing
- Ancillaries
- Servicing
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Qantas API — frequently asked questions
Does Qantas have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Qantas, including Qantas Distribution Platform NDC XML API.
How do I authenticate with the Qantas API?
Qantas documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Qantas Authentication.
How much does the Qantas API cost?
Qantas publishes its prices; its Premium NDC plan is Exempt as of 2026-10-20. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Qantas, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Qantas API ready for AI agents?
Qantas has a Kin Score of 34.0 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 2.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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