The vocabulary of buying premium cabins well
Short, honest definitions written for buyers. If a seller uses a term that is not here, ask them what it means — and ask us if the answer sounds rehearsed.
- Advance purchase
- Airline alliance
- Airport curfew
- Amenity kit
- Angle-flat seat
- ARC / IATA accreditation
- Arrivals lounge
- Award ticket
- Baggage allowance
- Bereavement fare
- Block time
- Bulkhead
- Business suite
- Carrier surcharge (YQ/YR)
- Change fee
- Chauffeur service
- Child fare
- Circle trip
- Codeshare
- Connecting bank
- Consolidator fare
- Corporate fare
- Denied boarding
- Direct aisle access
- Dynamic pricing
- E-ticket
- Elite status
- Equipment swap
- EU261 / UK261 compensation
- Fare basis code
- Fare bucket (booking class)
- Fare construction
- Fare hold
- Fare rules
- Fifth-freedom route
- Flagship cabin
- Gateway city
- GDS (Global Distribution System)
- Group fare
- Hard product
- Hidden-city ticketing
- Interline agreement
- Involuntary downgrade
- IRROPS (irregular operations)
- Joint venture (JV)
- Layover
- Lie-flat seat
- Load factor
- Lounge access
- Married segments
- Mileage accrual
- Minimum connection time (MCT)
- Mistake fare
- Name correction
- Net fare
- One-way premium
- Open-jaw
- PNR (record locator)
- Positioning flight
- Premium economy
- Premium transcontinental
- Priority services
- Protected connection
- Red-eye
- Refundable fare
- Reissue
- Retrofit
- Revenue management
- Reverse herringbone
- Round-the-world fare
- Schedule change
- Seasonal pricing
- Seat assignment
- Seat pitch
- Secondary airport
- Self-transfer
- Slot-controlled airport
- Soft product
- Split ticketing
- Staggered seating
- Standby
- Stopover
- Throne seat
- Through-checked baggage
- Through-fare
- Ticket validity
- Ticketing deadline
- Transit visa
- Travel waiver
- Ultra-long-haul
- Unpublished fare
- Upgrade space
- Void window
- Waitlist
- Wet lease
- Widebody