I am new to Traveller and don't know the exact rules but: I would have guessed that price is per distance, if there is only one price for a jump a 3-parsec-travel is three times the standard price. If you can get a Jump 3-ship you could either increase the price (you get there faster) or  stay the same or even decrease it a little bit (they have an economic advantage and want to undercut the people with the worse technology - better technology, more productivity). The end results in technology advancements are probably very much the same but the way to the future (more faster jump-drives) are a bit different. The first one will create some travel companies which are a bit richer if price is set correct and others will get there eventually. The second one will kill of slow travel rather faster than slowest but will create more unemployment in that business. 

Cheers

Niels

On 12. Jun 2017, at 04:53, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, but it costs even more to operate a high-jump ship, per passenger-jump, because of the tighter constraints on ship design, fuel crowding out passengers and cargo, and so forth. One would imagine that there would be a price premium on getting there faster, analogous to the good old days of Concorde vs. standard jet liners.

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Ethan McKinney <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Costs of operating a starship means that it has to be per jump, or the owners will be even broker.

On Jun 11, 2017 6:40 PM, "Rupert Boleyn" <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12Jun2017 1307, Jonathan Clark wrote:

I asked:
    How "long" is a Passage? Is it just one Jump, or a complete
end-to-end ticket?

Ethan McKinney graciously responded:

    For price of ticketing? One jump.

Thanks! Once I managed to get my brain back in gear, I found the exact
same answer in T5.
FWIW, T5 also more-than-doubles the benefits of a TAS membership,
compared to CT.

And now you know why very few high-jump passenger and freight services exist in TUs that use the canon pricing.

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