Programme description

Join the Cheapflights Affiliate Program

Cheapflights is a global travel price comparison site searching billions of cheap flights, hotels, and car rentals for its more than 120 million yearly unique visitors, as well as tailor made travel deals to its more than 10 million subscribers.

Who are we?

Since 1996, Cheapflights has been dedicated to make air travel simpler and enable travellers to cut through the clutter and find the cheapest booking. By simplifying complex data into user friendly price comparison, Cheapflights gives the worlds travellers looking for the best bargain, the confidence they´ve got that. We call it – Smart search. Made simple. Cheapflights is managed by KAYAK, an independent subsidiary of The Priceline Group.

So why should you join?

● Earn £0.08 CPA for each user’s click out – one of the highest in the industry
● Strong brand name
● Access to unique creatives which add useful functionality to your site, and enable your users to find the best flights on the web on a range of specially created landing pages.

How do I make money with Cheapflights?

Our affiliates are paid when the user clicks out on a search result (view deal) for flights.

Cheapflights offers a commission of:
1. £0.08 per click-out for desktop and tablet
2. £0.05 per click-out for mobile

Our cookie length is 30 minutes window and click-outs only account for post-click conversions, not for post-view conversions.

We do not pay out commission on:
1. Error fare traffic
2. Traffic over 1000 clicks with booking conversion below 1%
3. More than 5 clicks from one user for each search within a session
4. Transaction occurs more than 30mins after the user is redirected to Cheapflights

Payments will be made on a monthly basis within forty-five (45) days of the end of each applicable month.

Tracking

You can only construct tracking URLs using the URL Generator and the URL Generator Manual which you will receive with our welcoming message once you have been approved to our program.

The URL Generator Manual gives you an overview on all the different landing pages and parameters, while the URL generator asks you only between 7 & 15 questions and then gives you the final tracking URL that is ready to be put on your site.

Below you can see the structure of the tracking URL that consists of two elements, the Webgains prefix and the Cheapflights link.

This is the Webgains prefix:
http://track.webgains.com/click.html?wgprogramid=263924&wgcampaignid={Publisher_ID}&wgtarget=

and this is the Cheapflights link that follows the Webgains prefix:
https://www.{domain}/semi/webgains/{Landing_Page}/{Landing_ID}/en.html?utm_source=webgains&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=263924&utm_campaign={Publisher_ID}&pubid={Publisher_ID}&pubname={Publisher_Site_Name}&utm_term={Campaign_ID}&c={Campaign_ID}&bid={Banner_ID}&eid={Error_ID}&pid=1&{landing_page_details}

Please go through both of the documentations before you start promoting Cheapflights.

Is my website suitable?

Cheapflights is open to working with all websites that comply with our terms and conditions; however, travel, holiday or destination specific websites tend to perform best. Whether you’re a small, independent blog, or a large, established travel site, we are happy to receive your application and welcome you as an affiliate.

Domain language and relevance

Please apply to the program that is most relevant to your traffic and website as your links will then go to the correct Cheapflights domain. Your website must match the language of the Cheapflights domain you are linking to for both tracking and user experience reasons. Cheapflights has affiliate programs and specialised domains for most larger countries.

Should we find that you are linking to the incorrect domain, you will be paused or removed from the program, and we reserve the right not to pay for this traffic.

1) We do not accept:

● PPC traffic (specified in the keyword policy outlined below)
● Traffic from clickbots
● Traffic from branded Facebook pages
● Websites that are under construction
● Websites that are non-functional (including links)
● Websites where the content is not complete
● Website forums
● Websites that scrape our content and misuse our brand identity
● Blogs that are not maintained with new content
● Error fare traffic
● Incentivised traffic (including Cashback sites)
● Promoting our campaign to pornographic, racist or crime related content
● Cookie stuffing
● Custom affiliate creatives (unless authorised or requested from Cheapflights)
● 3rd party or publishers networks where placement of our brand is not clear or transparent

2) Traffic sources we accept

● Content Sites
● Travel related websites (or websites with a section specifically related to travel)
● Email (when content is signed off by Cheapflights)

Annex A
Full list of Cheapflights domains: Cheapflights.co.uk, Cheapflights.co.nz, Cheapflights.com.ph, Cheapflights.qa, Cheapflights.com, Cheapflights.com.au, Cheapflights.com.sg, Cheapflights.ca, Cheapflights.com.hk, Cheapflights.co.id, Cheapflights.co.za, Cheapflights.com.my, Cheapflights.com.ng