aircoach
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]aircoach (plural aircoaches)
- (aviation) An airliner offering relatively cheap but cramped passenger flights.
- 1949, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 3, number 9, page 4:
- Aircoaches are big money-makers for the five or six airlines that use them. They do a near-capacity business on midnight runs for passengers who don't mind the night-flying and who like the lower prices.
- 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Civil Air Policy, page 415:
- Does Eastern Airlines, for instance, put the same number of seats in their aircoaches that you do, in the same type aircraft?
See also
[edit]- Aircoach, an Ireland-based company providing express coach services to airports.