CVG72 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 161 posts, RR: 1 Posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 10818 times:
For a while now, I've seen many people refer to flying in J Class, and Y Class, if someone could give me a leg-up and kinda tell me what these terms mean, I'd really appreciate it.
CVG72 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 161 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 10813 times:
Disregard this, I found another post with the answers.
Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 58 Reply 2, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 10800 times:
F = First Class
J or C = Business Class
Y = Economy Class
The letters come from fare booking codes......but now it gets more complicated. Airlines have many different fare classes and categories: seats in First Class can be found in A class, P class and F class, depending upon the airline and the route. Some airlines have different fare letters for upgrade classes or reward tickets, etc., and it varies from airline to airline so there is no set rules.
To keep things simple, as stated above, F - J - Y are short hand for the classes set forth above.
Eric From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 10668 times:
Quoting Thepilot (Reply 3): is there a difference between J and C class? Is it just airline preference?
It is just a reference difference; most boarding passes will read "C".
Quoting Dutchjet (Reply 2): F = First Class
J or C = Business Class
Y = Economy Class
Actually, I would say it goes like this
F = First Class
J or C = Business Class
Y = Economy Extra/Plus/Super/Premium (you get the drift) Class
M = Economy class.
E.g. many airlines, such as KLM, now puts "M" on their boarding passes even though they do not offer an upgraded Economy product, whereas SAS puts "Y" for their upgraded product and "M" for their regular economy product.
EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5521 posts, RR: 58 Reply 5, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 10637 times:
Another difference between 'J' and 'C' is fare difference. Same level of service, but fares might be different.
Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 58 Reply 6, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 10595 times:
Quoting Eric (Reply 4): It is just a reference difference; most boarding passes will read "C".
In Europe, on shorter haul segments, not necessarily anywhere else.
Quoting EWRCabincrew (Reply 5): Another difference between 'J' and 'C' is fare difference. Same level of service, but fares might be different.
C was originally short hand for Club Class, the BA product.....as EWRCabinCrew pointed out, J and C could be different fare levels for similar biz class service (D is also frequently used for biz class.....D is generally a discounted biz class fare) or sometimes airlines differentiate between longhaul biz class service and shorthaul biz class service. Some airlines use the P designatior for longhaul first class services, others use F and/or A. There really is not much method to the madness as each airline tends to do its own thing within some very vague parameters.
For example, what is F class on CO? Nope, its not domestic first (thats A).....its an upgrade class for FFs using miles to upgrade from certain coach fare levels to businessfirst. F was R until 15/09/2006, but R has now become something else entirely.....
EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5521 posts, RR: 58 Reply 7, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 10581 times:
Quoting Dutchjet (Reply 6): F was R until 15/09/2006, but R has now become something else entirely.....
EWRCabincrew From United States of America, joined May 2006, 5521 posts, RR: 58 Reply 9, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 10495 times:
Quoting Dutchjet (Reply 8): Yep, but only on BA and AF for obvious reasons.
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