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Moving your application to production

When your application is ready to be deployed to the Real World™, you can request your Production Key and access the Production Environment.

Requesting a production key

To request a production key, you must complete the following steps:

  1. Sign in to your account and enter My Self-Service Workspace.
  2. Select the application to move to Production and click Get Production environment :

request_prod

  1. Complete the form with your personal information, billing address, and app information.
  2. Indicate whether your application uses Flight Create Orders in the checkbox at the bottom of the form. This API has special access requirements detailed below in the Moving to Production with Flight Create Orders section of this guide.
  3. Select your preferred method of payment (credit card or bank transfer) and provide the required billing information.
  4. Sign the Terms of Service agreement provided on Docusign.

Once these steps are completed, your application status will be pending:

pending

You will receive a notification that your application is validated and the status will change to live. This usually occurs within 72 hours. Note that the validation period applies to your first production application. Subsequent applications will be validated automatically.

live

Production keys are valid for all Self-Service APIs except Flight Create Orders API, which has special requirements. See the Moving to Production with Flight Create Orders of this guide for more information.

Remember that once you exceed your free transactions threshold, you will be billed automatically for your transactions every month. You can manage and track your app usage in My Self-Service Workspace.

Using the production key

Once you have a production key, you can make the following changes to your source code:

  • Update the base URL for your API calls to point to https://api.amadeus.com.
  • Update your API key and API secret with the new production keys.

If you are using Amadeus for Developers SDKs, add hostname='production' to the Client together with your API key and API secret as shown below example in python SDK:

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from amadeus import Client, ResponseError

amadeus = Client(
    client_id='REPLACE_BY_YOUR_API_KEY',
    client_secret='REPLACE_BY_YOUR_API_SECRET',
    hostname='production'
)

try:
    response = amadeus.shopping.flight_offers_search.get(
        originLocationCode='MAD',
        destinationLocationCode='ATH',
        departureDate='2022-11-01',
        adults=1)
    print(response.data)
except ResponseError as error:
    print(error)

Video Tutorial

You can check the step by step process in this video tutorial of How to move to production from Get Started series.

Moving to production with the Flight Create Orders API

Applications using Flight Create Orders must meet special requirements before moving to Production. The requirements are detailed in the following section.

Requirements

  1. You have a ticket issuance agreement with a consolidator. Only certified travel agents can issue flight tickets. Non-certified businesses must issue tickets via an airline consolidator (an entity that acts as a host agency for non-certified agents). The Amadeus for Developers team can assist you in finding a consolidator in your region.

  2. There are no restrictions in your country. Though we are working to make Self-Service flight booking available worldwide, Flight Create Orders API is currently not available to companies in the following countries:

Algeria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, Finland, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Maldives, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tahiti, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen

  1. You comply with local regulations . Flight booking is subject to local regulations and many areas (notably, California and France) have special requirements.

Contact us for questions about the above requirements or assistance with local regulations and airline consolidators in your region.

If you meet the above requirements, you are ready to move your application to production.

Adding Flight Create Orders to a production app

To add Flight Create Orders to an application currently in production, select the app in the My Apps section of your Self-Service Workspace and click API requests:

request_prod_booking

Then request production access to Flight Create Orders by clicking the Request button located under Actions:

request_prod_booking_list

Last update: March 22, 2023