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economy class

 
 
noun [U] (also economy) TRANSPORT

Definition

the cheapest type of air travel, or the part of a plane where people who have booked this type of air travel sit: fly/travel economy class
economy-class adjective [before noun] economy-class passengers/seats/flights
(Definition of economy class noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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