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On Wed, 5/6/15, Thomas Jones-Low <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Finding transport
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 2:33 PM

 On 5/6/2015 5:24 PM,
 Craig Berry wrote:
 > I was responding
 specifically to the "bumped from a scheduled
 liner" scenario.
 > There the goal of
 the passenger is to get from point A to point B safely
 and
 > quickly. Those interested in exotic
 means of transport will presumably already
 > have made other choices.
 >
 > Of course, I doubt
 the major lines actually overbook; it's harder to fall
 back
 > to the next flight on the kind of
 schedule implied here. Rather, I would imagine
 > they would sell a number of refundable
 standby tickets, or discounted
 >
 first-available-slot tickets, to deal with no-shows.
 >
     Depending upon the
 level of traffic it may be that there is a schedule liner

 every day leaving world X for world Y, and
 given the variations in jump drive
 performance (and other factors), it may be the
 ship leaving on day N arrives
 later than
 the ship which left on day N+1.

     I'd have to run the numbers again,
 but given the size of passenger space
 requirements, there isn't a lot of scale
 efficiency gained by making the liner
 larger, rather than building several smaller
 ones to transport more frequently.

     I think the biggest thing that a Tramp
 ship owner could do to attract
 passengers
 is to offer them a deal. But the rules in every version of
 Traveller
 assume the price is fixed (by
 whom isn't mentioned).
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Just as a side-note;

Years ago I was stuck in the airport at Houston ( ah yes, the adventure of travelling on 'Military Standby' back in the 'Good Old Days')  & wanted to get to ElPaso.

A flight was taking off in a few hours (evening) that would stop at several cities in the Texas Panhandle before proceeding to El Paso. There was also a flight early the next morning that would go direct to  ElPaso & would arrive some hours before the earlier one...
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