(no tip #34 as two tips are listed under #33)

first class: characterized by wide seats, elevated leg rests, deep reclining backs, gourmet food served on china with silverware and a table cloth, and ever-present, personal service from the flight attendants. This class is popular primarily by wealthy Arabs, frequent-flier-upgrades and off-duty airline employees flying free.

business class: in the early days of flying there were only first and economy. With deregulation, however, airline fares began to plummet and many of those people who used to travel by bus began to show up on airplanes. Business class was created as a kind of expensive economy class in which the primary benefit was not that there were free drinks, better earphones and slightly more room but rather that the loud-mouth drunks, mothers with squalling babies and teenagers with blaring ghetto-blasters wouldn't be able to afford the fare.

economy class: to describe this class as a snake is perhaps going too far. It is merely the mass class - the class in which all things have been reduced to a lowest common denominator: the seating, the service, the food, the earphone entertainement system, the toilets, the ... Yeah. It's a snake pit.

super economy class: In this class all that passengers get is a seat. No food service, no drinks service, no earphone entertainement system. Surprising as it may seem, the airlines don't charge more for this class than they do for ordinary economy. They apparently don't realize that the attraction of the food, drink and entertainment in ordinary economy class are such that most people would willingly pay to avoid them.

(from The Airline Passenger's Guerilla Handbook, Strategic & Tactics for Beating the Air Travel System, ISBN 0-924022-04-3, 1989m published by The Blakes Publishing Group, 320 Metropolitan Square, 655 Fifteenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20005; sold-out).