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air travel terms dictionary
The meanings of air travel terms
Have you ever wondered what words like charter, scheduled, codeshare and others mean? Perhaps you've wondered where can you find their meanings? Well, here's our dictionary, the most frequently used flight terms & their meanings:
Air taxi: an air taxi operates on an on-demand basis, frequently used by VIPs
Available seat mile (ASM): standard air transport unit of passenger capacity, defined as 1 seat transported 1 mile
Codesharing: marketing practice in which 2 or more airline companies share the same 2 letter code used to identify air carriers in the computer reservation systems used by the travel agents
Charter flight: flights organized directly from the departure location to the destination without any intermediate stops, usually these flights don't operate on a previously fixed schedule and have less room inside for passengers
Combi: an aircraft that has a main deck divided into 2 sections, one of which is fitted with seats and the other is used for cargo
Frequent flyer programs: marketing programs of airlines in which loyal customers earn points or miles for each flight, these points/miles can later be transformed into discounts or free/bonus flights
Nonstop flight: a flight with no intermediate stops
Scheduled flight: flights based on pre-determined schedules
Seat pitch: the distance between seats in an aircraft’s passenger cabin, measured from any point on a given seat to the corresponding point on the seat in front of or behind it
Turbojet: an aircraft that is equipped with jet engines and whose power is solely the result of its jet exhaust
Turboprop: a type of engine that uses a jet engine to turn a propeller
Flag carrier: airline operating on internal and international routes according to a fixed schedule
Low cost/fare airline: an airline that sells fares for significantly lower prices than the flag carriers and offers less in-flight services to passengers in order to cut costs, the low cost airlines usually sell their tickets online
Widebody aircraft: any aircraft with more than one aisle in the passenger cabin
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