The one-way shuttle fares on Delta and US Airways are about $205.
The Washington-New York business fare is about $21 over the Metroliner fare and compares to shuttle fares of $202.50.
Ms. McBride estimated that for subscribers, one-way shuttle fares on the Boeing Business Jet would be about $2,500, and about $1,700 on the bigger 757.
On Delta and US Airways the lowest round-trip shuttle fares are $127 on weekends, $189 on weekdays with a Saturday night stay, and $222 for a trip completed on the same day during off-peak hours and purchased seven days in advance.
As with air-shuttle fares, weekend prices for the Acela Express will be lower than on weekdays.
But those salaries do not take into account deductions, such as for social insurance – 51.34 RMB (£5.23) a month, even in the first month when employees are unable to claim on the insurance – meal deductions (2 RMB or 20p), shuttle bus fares (1 RMB or 10p), and punishments for workplace infractions such as lateness.
Shuttle provides fixed-fare shared travel along a designated route – yes, like a bus – with pre-defined pickups and drop-offs.
For the shuttle, a round-trip fare is $40; a single fare is $30.
Tickets are $125 per person, or $165 including a round-trip MetroNorth train fare and shuttle ride to the winery.
San Francisco's public-transportation system, known as Muni, is a notorious mess, and Leap has tried to take some of the burden off: it launched a private shuttle, with a six-dollar fare (the Muni fare is two), to cover the same route as the overcrowded 30X Marina Express.
Shuttle America, a low-fare carrier that is based at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., runs five round trips daily.
