FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Airplane/Airline Code Lingo.. Why??
View Single Post
Old Aug 6, 2016 | 11:59 am
  #2  
rickg523
FlyerTalk Evangelist
20 Countries Visited
All eyes on you!
10 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 20,271
Originally Posted by Jeffrey Robert
A class F ticket C ticket?????? Why does it exist where do you learn it?
Isnt there just First Class/Buss Class/Coach

Then yes you can further break it down window seat, aisle seat, middle seat. Or Coach +, Economy Comfort (whatever depends on the airline what they call it).

Why the letters?
Why different airlines use DIFFERENT letters is a Corporate thing. Sort of like Tall, Grande, and Vente standing in for Regular, Medium and Large at Starbucks.
But.... actually in each of those cabins there's maybe half a dozen fare classes. Those are denoted by letters. Read along on FT for a while and you'll learn just how different J is from Z, though both are Business Class.
It would be nice if fare class designators were standardized across airlines, but that would be a complete anomaly in the world of airline pricing.
rickg523 is offline