A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism related services to the public…
On most modern airlines, flying standby occurs when a passenger travels on a flight without a prior reservation for that…
A round-the-world ticket (also known as round-the-world fare or RTW ticket in short) is a product that enables travellers to…
In commercial aviation, a red-eye flight is a flight scheduled to depart at night and arrive the next morning. While…
In the airline and travel industries, a passenger name record (PNR) is a record in the database of a computer…
An open-jaw ticket is an airline return ticket where the destination and/or the origin are not the same in both…
A frequent flyer programme is a type of loyalty programme run by an airline or several airlines in conjunction, rewarding…
A frequent-flyer program (FFP) is a loyalty program offered by an airline. Many airlines have frequent-flyer programs designed to encourage…
A flight delay is when an airline flight takes off and/or lands later than its scheduled time. The Federal Aviation…
A fare basis code (often just referred to as a fare basis) is an alphabetic or alpha-numeric code used by…
An electronic ticket (commonly abbreviated as e-ticket) is the digital ticket equivalent of a paper ticket. The term is most…
A codeshare agreement, also known as codeshare, is an aviation business arrangement in which two or more airlines share the…
A boarding pass is a document provided by an airline during check-in, giving a passenger permission to enter the restricted…
Airline reservation systems (ARS) are part of the so-called passenger service systems (PSS), which are applications supporting the direct contact…
Airline booking ploys are tactics used by travelers in commercial aviation to lower the costs of flying to a desired…