Qantas

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 publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Travel, Australia, Aviation, Airline, and Distribution.

Qantas’ developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, changelog, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 21 more developer resources.

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34.3/100 thin Agent 14/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

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TravelAustraliaAviationAirlineDistributionNDCBookingCorporate TravelLoyalty

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Composite quality — 34.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 15.3 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 8.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 14/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

SignUp

SignUp

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conventions

Conventions

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Security

Security

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

Plans

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Partners

Partners

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Glossary

Glossary

Source (apis.yml)

aid: qantas
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qantas/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Qantas
kind: company
humanURL: https://www.qantas.com/
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.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Commercial agreement · Accreditation required
  confidence: high
  source:
  - https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/what-is-ndc
  - https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/distribution-platform-portal/register
  generated: '2026-07-28'
  method: observed
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/qantas.png
tags:
- Travel
- Australia
- Aviation
- Airline
- Distribution
- NDC
- Booking
- Corporate Travel
- Loyalty
created: '2026-07-28'
modified: '2026-07-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: qantas:qantas-distribution-platform-ndc-xml-api
  name: Qantas Distribution Platform NDC XML API
  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.
  humanURL: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc
  tags:
  - NDC
  - Airline Distribution
  - XML
  - Offers and Orders
  - Ticketing
  - Ancillaries
  - Servicing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/what-is-ndc
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/benefits
  - type: Partners
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/approved-technology-partners
  - type: Support
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/help-support
  - type: Glossary
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/help-support/glossary
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/policies/agent-information/ndc-shopping-policy
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/standard-agency-terms-conditions
  - type: Portal
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/distribution-platform-portal
  - type: Signup
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/distribution-platform-portal/register
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/distribution-platform-portal/terms-conditions
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/premium
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/distribution-platform-portal/what-is-qdpp
  - type: CapabilityListing
    url: https://www.qantas.com/adobe/assets/urn:aaid:aem:00230b0b-8c1e-4da6-8261-787185e22a1b/original/as/qdp-capability-listing-tool.pdf
  - type: KnowledgeBase
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/distribution-platform-portal/knowledge-centre
  - type: LanguageReference
    url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/distribution-platform-portal/language-reference-guide
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/qantas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/qantas-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/qantas-lifecycle.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/qantas-changelog.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/qantas-conformance.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/qantas-plans.yml
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/qantas-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/qantas-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.qantas.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au
- type: Documentation
  url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/standard-agency-terms-conditions
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: https://www.qantas.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qantas
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/qantas-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/qantas-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: https://www.qantas.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/qantas-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/qantas-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/qantas-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/qantas-changelog.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/qantas-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/qantas-plans.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/qantas-conventions.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/qantas-packages.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/qantasairways
- type: Support
  url: https://help.qantas.com/agencyconnect/s/topic/0TOMo000000MuMvOAK/qantas-ndc
- type: Blog
  url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/news
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.qantas.com/en-au/help/policies/privacy-and-security
- type: Pricing
  url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/policies/fares-and-ticketing/distribution-surcharge-policy
- type: SignUp
  url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/distribution-platform-portal/register
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/distribution-platform-portal/knowledge-centre
- type: Glossary
  url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/help-support/glossary
- type: Partners
  url: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc/approved-technology-partners
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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APIs 1

Qantas Distribution Platform NDC XML API

Pricing Plans 1

Qantas Plans