As Professor Sclar tells it, the agency hired a private company to run 10 of its bus routes, keeping 10 comparable routes in public operation as a control group.
Business-class seats will cost about 15 to 20percentt more than they do on other Singapore Airlines planes on comparable routes "because of the substantial amount of extra real estate" devoted to these seats, he said.
I like Southwest and fly it when it's feasible for me, but you can't get to Shanghai on Southwest, and I routinely find its fares on many domestic routes to be higher than its rivals' on comparable routes.
Topaz International, a corporate travel auditing firm, found last November in a study of 100 business travel markets that fares on eight competing airlines, on comparable routes, were lower than Southwest's over 60 percent of the time.
According to Tony Perkins of McKinsey, almost every route in China is serviced by two or three times the number of carriers that comparable routes in such developed markets as America support.In theory, the carriers compete only on service quality and scheduling, because the CAAC still regulates ticket prices.
They aren't any slower than comparable bus routes on other streets – and, of course, they're charming.
The Cmax of MTX was comparable across routes and doses (table 2).
"The big payoffs will come when the bike path inspires comparable car-free routes in the center of town," he said.
Initial studies from Network Rail suggest a route comparable to Crossrail in London could be feasible, making Liverpool an hour from Leeds instead of two.
In addition, it can be seen that the utilities and waste disposal costs are comparable in both routes and, more importantly, they are not significant (compared to other components).
