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On Wed, 11/30/16, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Alternate Jump Drive: Request for Comment
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 6:14 PM

 On Sun, 27 Nov 2016
 14:10:08 -0800, Greg Nokes <xxxxxx@nokes.name>
 wrote:

 >There would probably start to be levels of
 service between certain
 >systems - IE
 “we can get your data/mail/cargo/people there in 40 hours

 >rather then 150, so we will charge X
 more."
 >
 >
 >I’d think it would be like the fed ex
 overnight vs fed ex ground - you
 >are
 paying for time.

 [...]

 >I’d see a lot of first
 class, second class and normal rate traffic.

 >So if you have a package
 that needs to get there really fast, you can
 >pony up and buy space on the faster ship. I
 see a lot of businesses
 >doing this -
 for stuff and for people. If you have employees traveling

 >for meetings, spending 150 hours in
 jump is a bigger money sink then
 >spending 40 hours in jump, and time is
 money - salary and lost
 >opportunities.
 If you have a work team idling waiting on parts or
 >materials, getting there 120 hours quicker
 could be a huge win.

 >Honestly if you have two high pop worlds a
 jump or two apart, I could
 >see a the
 majority of traffic using the faster jump.

 Well, that would depend on the
 cost difference - the Concorde, for
 example,
 never really became the flight of choice for NYC-LON or
 NYC-PAR trips because the cost was so high
 relative to even
 first-class on a 747. And
 the Concorde wasn't as nice as a 747 first
 class.

 (I
 walked through the retired Concorde at the Intrepid Sea Air
 Space
 museum in NYC. Sucker is *tiny*! I
 can't imagine wanting to be cooped
 up in
 it, even if it would be for only half the time of a 747
 trip.)
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I recall reading an article, way, way, back when, stating that some international assoc of air carriers *forced* the Concorde operators to charge as much as they did! As I recall, they were forced to charge a certain % above the other first-class rates.

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