Translation of "economy class " (English → French) :

These travel expenses shall be reimbursed in the form of a flat-rate payment based on the cost of air travel in the class immediately superior to economy class'.

ELTIFs that comply with the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2015/760 of the European Parliament and of the Council focus on long-term asset classes which allows them to play a role in providing a complementary vehicle for delivering public or private/public investments to the wider economy.

75. Believes that in times of increasing financial difficulties for numerous Europeans and ongoing austerity policies, Parliament should show an example of restraint by reducing its travel costs; asks the Bureau to create conditions for making savings of 5% in all kind of travel expenditure including delegations of committees and interparliamentary delegations in full respect of the Statute for Members and its implementing measures; believes that a reduction in business flights by Members of Parliament would help to achieve such savings; requests that 15% of the travel appropriations be placed in reserve pending a report by the Secretary General of Parliament to be delivered to the Bureau and the Committee on Budgets by 31 March 2012; c ...[+++]alls for such a report to examine the feasibility of measures to ensure the utmost efficiency of Members' travel with a view to making recommendations for potential budgetary savings by considering all proposals and resolutions which Parliament has already adopted on this question, by presenting proposals to reduce its number of business class flights, encouraging the purchase of economy / flexi-economy class airfares, ensuring a proper treatment of the Frequent Flyer Points and revising the rules of the Members' Registry opening hours, in particular on Fridays; expects that the appropriations for the travels are reduced in 2012 and in the following years till the end of the legislature; suggests that savings in institutional visits have to take into account the primacy of pluralism over proportionality when defining the delegations' composition;

Especially in economy class, where the seat pitch is generally less than 80 cm, the danger of damage to health is particularly high, hence the tag "economy class syndrome".

A study carried out by British medical specialists comes to the horrifying conclusion that, in Great Britain alone, as many as 2 000 passengers die every year from "economy class syndrome".

Flying as a passenger in a cramped economy-class seat is more dangerous than has hitherto been admitted.