# Virgin Atlantic

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/virgin-atlantic/  
**Website:** https://www.virginatlantic.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 12

Virgin Atlantic Airways is a United Kingdom long-haul carrier (IATA code VS) based at London Heathrow and Manchester, operating a transatlantic joint venture with Delta Air Lines, Air France-KLM and SkyTeam, and a SkyTeam member since 2023. In the distribution chain it sits as an airline supplier that reaches travel sellers through three routes at once - the legacy GDSs (Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport, all under renewed multi-year content agreements), its own IATA NDC direct connect, and its own consumer channels. Its API posture is distribution-only and honestly gated. Virgin Atlantic publishes no consumer, flight-status or loyalty API, and no OpenAPI or machine-readable API description of any kind. What it does publish, openly and without a login, is the VS NDC Connect portal at ndc.virginatlantic.com - full request and response reference documentation for twelve IATA NDC 21.3 messages, XML samples, workflow diagrams, a certification programme, and downloadable IATA NDC 21.3.3 XSD schema assets. The contract itself is the IATA NDC standard rather than a Virgin-specific shape, but getting a key is not self-serve - production access requires valid IATA accreditation and Virgin Atlantic ticketing authority (or a service-provider connection), a signed Technical User Agreement, Data Processing Agreement and Agency Sales Agreement, and at minimum RED tier certification. There is no bulk export operation and no published base URL - public docs, accreditation required, no exit path.

## Kin Score — 45.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 45.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 46.5 |
| Governance | 22.0 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

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

## APIs (12)

- **Virgin Atlantic NDC AirShopping API** — IATA NDC 21.3 AirShopping message. Flight shopping and availability search returning Virgin Atlantic offers, including calendar and multi-city itineraries. Documented publicly o...
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC OfferPrice API** — IATA NDC 21.3 OfferPrice message. Prices a selected offer and returns the firm, bookable price with applicable rules before an order is created.
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC OrderCreate API** — IATA NDC 21.3 OrderCreate message. Creates the Virgin Atlantic Order and PNR from a priced offer, including passenger details and form of payment, and returns an OrderView respo...
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC SeatAvailability API** — IATA NDC 21.3 SeatAvailability message. Returns the seat map and seat pricing for an offer or an existing order.
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC ServiceList API** — IATA NDC 21.3 ServiceList message. Returns the ancillary services available against an offer or an order, such as bags and paid services.
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC OrderRetrieve API** — IATA NDC 21.3 OrderRetrieve message. Retrieves a single Virgin Atlantic Order by order identifier or PNR record locator and returns an OrderView response.
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC OrderReshop API** — IATA NDC 21.3 OrderReshop message. Searches for alternative offers against an existing order, used for voluntary date and time changes and passenger servicing.
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC OrderQuote API** — IATA NDC 21.3 OrderQuote message. Quotes the price of a proposed change to an existing order, including requote and confirm of a held booking.
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC OrderChange API** — IATA NDC 21.3 OrderChange message. Applies changes to an existing order - APIS information amendment, name correction, split order, post-sale seat and service purchase, and volu...
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC OrderChangeNotif API** — IATA NDC 21.3 OrderChangeNotif message. Notifies the seller of airline-initiated changes to an order, such as schedule changes.
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC OrderList API** — IATA NDC 21.3 OrderList message. Returns a list of orders matching search criteria for the authenticated seller.
- **Virgin Atlantic NDC OrderHistory API** — IATA NDC 21.3 OrderHistory message. Returns the change history of an order. This is the closest thing Virgin Atlantic publishes to a data-retrieval operation; it is per-order an...

## Security (2)

- **Virgin Atlantic Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Virgin Atlantic Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Travel, United Kingdom, Aviation, Airline, Distribution, NDC, Booking, GDS

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