coach fare

0 ~It is the money (fare) you pay to travel on a coach. 0-

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0Nona -- do you still travel by coach in England? What exactly is a coach? It sounds to me like something Cinderella rode in!02br
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00In the U.S., to "travel coach" or "pay coach fare" means to purchase the less expensive seats on an airplane. (usually now it would be called "economy") -- as opposed to "first class".0-

0A coach is just a long-distance bus or a special (normally much nicer) bus that is chartered for tourist trips/school trips/group transport.02br
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00It's a nice idea if we call all travel around in Cinderella type coaches 05002br
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00It's the same thing as the Greyhounds in the US - but I think that is just a company name. What are the actual veh

0 I would just call it a bus. Actually, I would proably call it "a bus -- not just a city bus, but a big one, like a charter bus or a Greyhound." I just googled Greyhound, and they are described as "America's largest inter-city bus company," so I guess they would also call it a bus. 0-

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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10It's a nice idea if we call all travel around in Cinderella type coaches 15012br
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10Yeah, but that whole midnight thing could be a problem...02br
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00(Totally unrelated comment: In the Navy, there was a an informal phrase called "C

0 Ok, coaches are a bit different to buses, to us. They have different types of seating and so on, are more comfortable. A bus is something only used for a short journey. 0-

0 > Please, could someone explain what is it??02br
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00> It is the money (fare) you pay to travel on a coach.02br
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00As we all know - context is everything.02br
00My immediate thought was that it could also refer to the food (fare) served to people who travel 'coach' class with an airline. 0-

0 Seems unlikely. Airline food isn't refered to as 'fare'. 0-

0 It is in the inflight magazines and advertising/publicity aimed at a certain demographic 0-