He added: "Millions of weekday commuters, who fork out a fortune in fares, risk seeing their safety compromised and their services reduced to chaos so that a few thousand revellers can be shipped home in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday morning – and experienced tube managers know that.
Any experimentation with fares risks widening those losses.
While Greening insisted that reform and costcutting should mean commuters eventually pay less overall, passenger groups warned that allowing premium peak-time fares risked derailing any fares review.
But he said air fares risked rising faster in an independent UK, with taxes such as air passenger duty likely to increase as the economy stuttered after exit.
Carriers have learned that they must match a rival's fare or risk losing market share.
Apple's ambitions to be the go to spot for family friendly fare also risks being thwarted by the only studio that's managed to fend off the tech giants encroaching on the entertainment world — Disney.
This includes everything from developing a good trigger finger when purchasing fares (or risk losing the deal), to reading up on the latest fees and getting to the airport prepared to shell out extra cash.
After a heavy drubbing at the end of the previous week, stockmarkets fell again, with the share prices of firms thought to be at most risk faring badly.
Unfortunately for the independents, they seem to share the same raison d'etre with Netflix's original content business, which appears designed to champion challenging fare that the risk-allergic studios typically avoid.
Despite its reputation as an enclave for humanities graduates, journalism is endlessly focussed on numbers: economic growth, benefit cuts, political polling, house prices, opinion surveys, crime stats, health risks, fare rises, birth rates, pass rates, unemployment rates, mortality rates.
