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Virgin Australia

Virgin Australia (IATA code VA, ASX:VGN) is Australia's second-largest airline group, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Brisbane, operating a domestic and short-haul international network alongside charter and cargo services with more than 8,000 team members and the 13-million-member Velocity Frequent Flyer loyalty program. It sits on the airline side of a concentrated Australian duopoly with Qantas, and reaches travel agents and travel management companies almost entirely through GDS intermediation — Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport/Galileo — rather than through any direct machine interface of its own. Virgin Australia selected Sabre as its preferred NDC IT technology provider in October 2023 and renewed a multi-year Amadeus distribution agreement covering EDIFACT today and NDC in future, but as of July 2026 no Virgin Australia NDC endpoint, developer portal or API documentation is published anywhere on virginaustralia.com. Its API posture is honestly stated as none-published: developer.virginaustralia.com, developers., api., apis. and docs. subdomains do not resolve; /developers, /api, /api-docs, /openapi.json and /swagger.json all return 404; and the only partner surface is the Agency Hub, whose Travel Agent Main Agreement requires current IATA or ATIS accreditation, GDS access for BSP sales, and Virgin Australia's absolute discretion to approve an account. The one genuinely public programmatic-adjacent surface is the Virgin Australia app in ChatGPT, launched 10 June 2026 for flight and Velocity Reward Seat search only — it cannot book, amend, cancel or take payment, and its underlying interface is not documented.

Virgin Australia is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Travel, Australia, Aviation, Airlines, and Distribution.

Virgin Australia’s developer surface includes engineering blog, privacy policy, legal docs, documentation, support, and 21 more developer resources.

11.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
AccessNo public API
0 APIs
TravelAustraliaAviationAirlinesDistributionGDSNDCBookingLoyaltyCorporate Travel

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
  • Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Virgin Australia API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Virgin Australia Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Virgin Australia Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 8

The organization behind the API

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Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: virgin-australia
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/virgin-australia/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
name: Virgin Australia
kind: company
humanURL: https://www.virginaustralia.com/
description: 'Virgin Australia (IATA code VA, ASX:VGN) is Australia''s second-largest airline group, founded in 2000 and headquartered
  in Brisbane, operating a domestic and short-haul international network alongside charter and cargo services with more than
  8,000 team members and the 13-million-member Velocity Frequent Flyer loyalty program. It sits on the airline side of a concentrated
  Australian duopoly with Qantas, and reaches travel agents and travel management companies almost entirely through GDS intermediation
  — Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport/Galileo — rather than through any direct machine interface of its own. Virgin Australia
  selected Sabre as its preferred NDC IT technology provider in October 2023 and renewed a multi-year Amadeus distribution
  agreement covering EDIFACT today and NDC in future, but as of July 2026 no Virgin Australia NDC endpoint, developer portal
  or API documentation is published anywhere on virginaustralia.com. Its API posture is honestly stated as none-published:
  developer.virginaustralia.com, developers., api., apis. and docs. subdomains do not resolve; /developers, /api, /api-docs,
  /openapi.json and /swagger.json all return 404; and the only partner surface is the Agency Hub, whose Travel Agent Main
  Agreement requires current IATA or ATIS accreditation, GDS access for BSP sales, and Virgin Australia''s absolute discretion
  to approve an account. The one genuinely public programmatic-adjacent surface is the Virgin Australia app in ChatGPT, launched
  10 June 2026 for flight and Velocity Reward Seat search only — it cannot book, amend, cancel or take payment, and its underlying
  interface is not documented.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: private
  gated_source:
  - x-api-posture
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.virginaustralia.com/content/dam/vaa/images/vaa-logo-grey.png/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.web.1280.1280.png
tags:
- Travel
- Australia
- Aviation
- Airlines
- Distribution
- GDS
- NDC
- Booking
- Loyalty
- Corporate Travel
tags_raw:
- Travel
- Australia
- Aviation
- Airline
- Distribution
- GDS
- NDC
- Booking
- Loyalty
- Corporate Travel
created: '2026-07-28'
modified: '2026-10-20'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/virgin-australia-hosts.yml
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/virgin-australia-integration-edges.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/virgin-australia-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/virgin-australia-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/virgin-australia-conformance.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/about-us/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/newsroom/
- type: PartnerPortal
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/travel-info/flying-with-us/agency-hub/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/travel-info/flying-with-us/agency-hub/travel-agent-main-agreement/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/about-us/policies/legal/terms-of-use/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/about-us/policies/legal/terms-of-use/chatgpt-app/
- type: Privacy
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/about-us/policies/privacy/privacy-policy/
- type: Legal
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/about-us/policies/legal/conditions-of-carriage/
- type: Onboarding
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/travel-info/flying-with-us/agency-hub/bsp-ticketing-authority-application/
- type: Onboarding
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/travel-info/flying-with-us/agency-hub/application-for-virgin-australia-plating-authority-for-arc-agent/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/travel-info/flying-with-us/agency-hub/policies-and-guides/
- type: Login
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/travel-info/flying-with-us/agency-hub/agents-corporate-log-in/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/help/contact-us/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/help/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/virgin-australia
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/about-us/investor-relations/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/about-us/careers/
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/help/accessibility/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/VirginAustralia
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/virginaustralia/
apis: []
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: Website and all common[] pointers re-fetched 2026-10-20 with a browser UA; the agent-faqs Documentation pointer
    returned 404 and was removed; logo taken from the homepage markup.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/fly-for-business/business-flyer/travel-trade/agent-faqs/
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.virginaustralia.com/content/dam/vaa/images/vaa-logo-grey.png/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.web.1280.1280.png
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

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