Delta's "same-day standby upgrades" start at $50 for flights of up to 500 miles and increase to $350 for flights longer than 3,000 miles, but you must be traveling on an eligible fare (K or higher) to qualify for a paid upgrade.
Members earn Fly On points on eligible fare classes on JAL Group and Oneworld member airlines.
For a flight from New York to San Francisco, the price difference between an eligible economy class fare and business class is more than $1,500 one way, versus $225 for a same-day standby upgrade, if one is available the day you fly.
To be eligible for reimbursement, train fares must be booked at a standard fare and booked in advance.
Most published fares are eligible, but customers flying on deeply discounted and sale fares will not be able to participate.
College or sixth form students aged 16 to 19 will be eligible for the cheaper fares during academic terms and half-term breaks.
Average age: nearly eligible for a reduced-fare MetroCard.
Khan said TfL did not yet have the technology to allow unlimited free bus transfers or for passengers who travel on a tube or train between their two bus trips to be eligible for the hopper fare.
Under the new law, an estimated 20,000 of the 50,000 people newly eligible to pay half-fare were expected to take advantage of the price break, at a cost of $7 million a year to the authority, which has an annual operating budget of just under $4 billion.
The latest is a policy brief released Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, in which researcher Rand Ghayad examined whether long-jobless workers eligible for benefits are faring worse than ineligible workers.
Those traveling on the lowest discount fares are not eligible for the perk.
