# Qantas

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/qantas/  
**Website:** https://www.qantas.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 31.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 77.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 53.9 |
| Access Clarity | 53.9 |

## Agent readiness — 5.6 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Commercial agreement · Accreditation required — onboarding: approval, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (1)

- **Qantas Distribution Platform NDC XML API** — 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...

## Security (2)

- **Qantas Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Qantas Vulnerability Disclosure** — Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Qantas Plans**

## Tags

Travel, Australia, Aviation, Airline, Distribution, NDC, Booking, Corporate Travel, Loyalty

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/qantas/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.