cattle class

British  

noun

1. informal a jocular name for the economy-class section of an airliner, in which passengers have little space to move

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Example Sentences

Major U.S. airlines are carving up cattle class, hoping to nab every customer from the tightwad to the spendthrift amid intensifying competition from discount carriers and declining ticket revenues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 11, 2016

See, I always fly cattle class on the cheapest flights I can possibly find.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2014

Not long ago, it was Airbus that was strapped to a seat in cattle class and being pelted with airline food.

From Economist • Sep. 16, 2010

Most of the time there are no more than a handful of people in the two carriages and standard class is more like cattle class with people standing nose to nose.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2010

How about giving us a modicum of extra seating space to improve comfort in what I call the cattle class?

From Time Magazine Archive