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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.
APIs.json: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qantas/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- Travel
- Australia
- Aviation
- Airline
- Distribution
- NDC
- Booking
- Corporate Travel
- Loyalty
- Created: 2026-07-28
- Modified: 2026-07-28
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.
- Human URL: https://agencyconnect.qantas.com/en-au/ndc
- Base URL: not published
- NDC
- Airline Distribution
- XML
- Offers and Orders
- Ticketing
- Ancillaries
- Servicing
- Documentation
- Documentation
- Partners
- Support
- Glossary
- RateLimits
- TermsOfService
- Portal
- Signup
- TermsOfService
- Pricing
Recorded in full in review.yml under switchingCost. Summary:
| Dimension | Finding |
|---|---|
| Interface shape | standard-plus-proprietary — IATA NDC XML, certified NDC@Scale, extended with Qantas-only content tiering, qualifiers and commercial entitlements |
| Second source | no-alternative — the channel is competitive, the content is monopoly; only Qantas sells Qantas seats |
| Exit path | no-export-published — no export, dump, bulk or data-portability operation documented |
| Identifier portability | Shared industry keys (QF, PNR, EMD, IATA/ARC/TIDS/VTC, PCC) plus platform-bound NDC Order ID, QFF number and ABN/QBR corporate codes |
| Contractual lock-in | Qantas Distribution Platform Access Agreement; Standard Agency Terms cl. 1.3 (30 days' notice), 2.1 (accreditation), 2.5 (Ticketing Authority revocable at sole discretion); portal terms forbid hyperlinking to or exposing the portal |
| Distribution model | ndc-direct — Qantas runs its own NDC platform and surcharges every other channel |
| Access gate | commercial-agreement — plus IATA/ARC/TIDS/VTC accreditation, plus invitation for the surcharge-free Premium tier |
Channel pricing published by Qantas, effective 1 July 2025:
| Channel | Qantas surcharge |
|---|---|
| Traditional EDIFACT via GDS | A$11.50 per segment (AU POS); up to US$13 per segment other POS |
| Standard NDC via Amadeus / Sabre / Travelport | A$4.50 or US$3.00 per segment |
| Certified Technology Partner, or the QDP portal | none |
| Premium NDC (invitation / EOI only) | none, and the widest content range |
No openapi/ directory exists. Qantas publishes no OpenAPI, Swagger, AsyncAPI or Postman artifact. Every spec path probed on qantas.com, api.qantas.com and agencyconnect.qantas.com returned HTTP 404; no developer subdomain resolves; there is no Qantas GitHub organization; and Qantas is not listed on the IATA Developer Portal. The NDC XML API contract is disclosed only after a Qantas Distribution Platform Access Agreement is signed. Every URL probed and its HTTP status is recorded in review.yml under probes.