Skyscanner
Flight metasearch on Impact, storing referral data for 30 days. The rate is performance-based and not published.
About the Skyscanner affiliate program
Skyscanner runs its affiliate programme on Impact — its own page names Impact.com as the partner management platform and sends existing affiliates there to log in. The one hard number it publishes is the window: referral data is stored for 30 days, which Skyscanner frames as getting paid even if a referral does not book immediately. On commission it is deliberately vague, describing a flexible rate structure based on performance where the more bookings Skyscanner receives, the more the affiliate earns, and saying affiliates earn for every person sent who makes a qualified action. No percentage or per-action amount appears anywhere, and what counts as a qualified action is not defined publicly, so the commission field here is empty — the 20% of referral fee previously recorded has no source. The scale is the draw: over 160 million monthly users, 1,200-plus supply partners across flights, hotels and cars, 10 billion prices searched daily, and coverage of 180 countries through 52 domains. Monetisation tools are widgets that embed search directly in your pages, banners, and text links. Applications are reviewed against eligibility criteria set out in the programme FAQs, with a decision sent by email.
Pros and cons
- ✓Referral data stored for 30 days, so a visitor who books later still pays
- ✓Runs on Impact, so tracking and reporting sit in a mainstream dashboard
- ✓Enormous reach: 160 million monthly users across 180 countries and 52 domains
- ✓Widgets, banners and text links, with search built into your own pages
- –No commission rate is published — Skyscanner describes a flexible rate structure based on performance
- –Payment is for a qualified action rather than a confirmed booking, and what qualifies is not defined publicly
- –Applications are reviewed against eligibility criteria set out in their FAQs
- –Metasearch means you are one step further from the transaction than an OTA affiliate
Topics
Skyscanner runs its affiliate program through Impact. Search for it by name inside your Impact dashboard. We list program details for reference and don’t link out — always confirm the current terms with the program itself.