Pre-Paid Ticket Advice (PTA) is a facility offered to Agents who require tickets to be pre-paid, issued and available at an airport, or at some overseas Qantas offices.

To request a PTA, you must:

• Determine the fare to be used
• Raise a PTA/MCO for the fare, taxes and PTA service fee. If Qantas is the outbound International carrier, payment should be made to Qantas via a PTA/MCO issued on Qantas paper (081)
• Send the MCO and a copy of your itinerary and fare quote to the Qantas PTA department

Once your PTA request has been processed an OSI message will be placed into the PNR advising a PTA has been sent.

If requesting a PTA and Qantas is not the outbound carrier, that while we make every effort to ensure receipt and acknowledgment of telex Prepaid Ticket Advises, owing to time constraints, different Airline systems, Policies and Procedures, acknowledgment is not always received. Once telex transmissions has been sent by us (and not returned undelivered), the receiving airline is deemed to have received the PTA advice and is responsible for issuing the ticket accordingly. It is no longer in Qantas' control and Qantas cannot, therefore guarantee that the ticket will be ready for collection. The PTA fee and any applicable fare cancellation penalties will apply.

PTA requests processed by Qantas will be subject to a non-refundable Service Fee.

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