aircoach

aircoach

English

Etymology

air +‎ coach

Noun

aircoach (plural aircoaches)

1. (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

• Aircoach, an Ireland-based company providing express coach services to airports.