Rule #1 of travel pricing is you can’t risk charging too little for business travel because they subsidize the price conscious travellers. Leaving on an earlie

Rule #1 of travel pricing is you can’t risk charging too little for business travel because they subsidize the price conscious travellers. Leaving on an earlier train because a meeting ends early is exactly the kind of thing business travellers pay good money for. But that’s also indiatinguishable from this kind of random walk in travel that leisure travellers would love to see - so it can’t happen. If you want business travellers to pay 3x for that convenience you can’t give it to everyone for less than that.