CheapTickets
CheapTickets is an online provider of travel services with a strong focus on the leisure market. The company offers affordable deals targeted at holidaymakers. Offers include cheap air tickets, rental cars, hotels, cruises, etc. CheapTickets was founded in Hawaii in 1986, by Michael and Sandra Hartley, as an online ticket consolidator. The company would find and market air tickets at rates significantly lower than the published rates. In 2000, it was acquired by Cendant; later, it became a subsidiary of Orbitz Worldwide Inc., and eventually Expedia, when Orbitz was purchased by Expedia.
Main Product Offerings
Today, CheapTickets offers a lot more than cheap airfare, and you can find all sorts of great deals on everything from vacation packages at under $500 to hotels and vacation rentals. CheapTickets runs an affiliate program that allows marketers to make money each time they refer a customer to the CheapTickets website, and the customer makes one or more purchases.
How To Get Started As A Cheaptickets Affiliate
To get started as an affiliate, simply head over to https://www.CheapTickets.com/p/network-affiliate, and click on the icon next to the link that says “join our network”. You will be taken to another page where you will have to fill and submit a form to commence the application process. The affiliate program is run by Commission Junction (now Conversant), which will professionally track all referrals and transactions, and make sure you get paid on time.
As CheapTickets offers multiple product lines, there is no fixed rate for commissions, and each product type attracts a unique flat-fee or percentage, as follows:
Air tickets - $4.00
Car rental - $3.00
Retail Hotel - 3%
Merchant Hotel - 6%
Merchant Hotel (w/ Promo Code) - 1%
Cruise - $30.00
Activities - 5%
Packages - 4%
Packages (w/ Promo Code) - 1%
Event Tickets - 8%
Event Tickets Promo - 2%
What Are The Benefits Of Being A Cheaptickets Affiliate?
CheapTickets is a global leader in the travel services industry, and as such, it is a reputable brand that already has massive market exposure. Holidaymakers are always looking for great deals, so the web traffic is already there—according to the CheapTickets website, they receive 60 million unique visits per month. With CheapTickets, customers have a choice of over 400 bookable airlines and 260, 000 bookable properties; this wide variety of choices makes them more likely to find a package or deal that they like, thus increasing the chances that they will make a transaction and earn you some commission income.
Added to this is the fact that CheapTickets offers deals on everything a holidaymaker might need, which means that customers are very likely to make multiple transactions when they visit the website. Just one referral could earn you exponential commission income.
CheapTickets’ Target Audience
Given the global reach of CheapTickets, its clients are from the very broad market of global holidaymakers, and you can even choose a niche to focus on—for example, honeymooners headed to Hawaii. In general, you can expect that the largest market segment will be middle-aged, North American and European workers with families.