aircoach

From air +‎ coach.

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?

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