Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

available seat-mile

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English

Syllables: avail-able seat-mile
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A measure of an airline flight's passenger carrying capacity, equal to the number of seats onboard an aircraft multiplied by the distance flown in miles. Seats that are not available for sale to revenue-paying passengers (e.g., seats reserved for crew rest, etc.) are excluded from this calculation.

Inflected Forms

available seat-miles (plural)

Questions

What does available seat-mile mean?: A measure of an airline flight's passenger carrying capacity, equal to the number of seats onboard an aircraft multiplied by the distance flown in miles. Seats that are not available for sale to revenue-paying passengers (e.g., seats reserved for crew rest, etc.) are excluded from this calculation.

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