Economy class, also called
coach class,
steerage, or
standard class, (colloquially:
Cattle class), is the lowest
travel class of seating in
air travel,
rail travel, and sometimes
ferry or maritime travel. Historically, this travel class has been called
tourist class on
ocean liners and
third class, or even
fourth class, on railways. In some contexts or languages it is (half jokingly) referred to as "wood class" because seats and carriages in the cheapest class were literally made from wood in the 19th and early 20th century. Another common term (both in rail travel and aviation) is "coach class".