cabin class

plural cabin classes

1. The class of seating or accommodation one can choose on an airplane, ship, or train.

   To what extent do actual long-haul fares and yields for each cabin class broadly reflect a^([sic]) 841:455:140 and 100 cost relationship between the four cabins?

   2019, Rigas Doganis, Flying Off Course: Airline Economics and Marketing, page 266

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   Alternately, the company may identify the need for the creation of a new cabin class of full-fare economy business travelers to more specifically address their needs that differ from leisure travelers.

   2012, Hugh Davidson, Offensive Marketing, page 222

   Though the file encodes the cabin class as an integer, it is really shorthand for a category. Cabin classes do not behave like numbers, e.g., a first class cabin plus a second class cabin does not equal a third class cabin.

   2016, John V. Guttag, Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python, page 425

2. On a passenger ship, a specific class of accommodation, usually less expensive than first class but more expensive than the lowest category.

   Located in the stern of the ship, cabin class was less spacious than first, but definitely not cheap.

   2013, Steven Ujifusa, A Man and His Ship, page 257

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   Navymen in pay grades E-7, E-6, E-5, and E-4s who have more than four years' service are entitled to cabin class accommodations if they are traveling with their dependents.

   1956, All Hands - Issues 467-479, page 12

   The reduction may be granted only to servants accompanying their employers and travelling first class, or cabin class when when cabin class is the top class of the vessel.

   1961, United States. Congress. House, Hearings - Volume 3, page 719

   While first class was mostly situated on the upper decks, cabin class was literally “in between” the two other classes, and tourist class was either forward or aft and mostly on the lower decks.

   2020, Birgit Braasch, Claudia Müller, Off Shore, page 169

3. The classification of a boat based on its size.

   Balthazar, owned by DePass and Walker, won in the 21-foot cabin class, defeating Quakeress III, owned by Commodore J. M. Kinabrew.

   1986, Flora K. Scheib, History of the Southern Yacht Club, page 180

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   In the shops also ia a boat for the 25-foot cabin class of the Massachusetts Yacht Racing Association for Com modore Chesterton of the Winthrop Club , who will try to lower the colors of the successful Flirt of last season .

   1901, Thomas Fleming Day, The Rudder - Volume 12, page 275

   He is the father of the 21-foot cabin class, made famous by the Lipton cup contests, and the whole Chicago fleet race every summer for his cups .

   1908, Power Boating - Volume 4, page 367