The customer experience must be consistent in marketing, ticketing, gate operations, flying and baggage handling.
Ticket gates at transport hubs in the capital may be left open to reduce congestion.
Tickets to the end of the line, Takao-san Guchi Station, cost 370 yen (about $3.10 at 124 yen to the U.S. dollar) and can be bought near the ticket gates.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board voted last week to take the first step toward installing 275 ticket gates on the entire 17.4-mile subway and at many light-rail stations.
It would increase services, apply any fares freeze to devolved routes, refurbish stations, install more ticket gates and staff stations all day, ministers were told.
The organisation wants the journey time to the Essex airport to be cut by 17 minutes to half-an-hour, and calls for the ticket gates recently installed at Gatwick's station to be removed.
Though the station is laid out in the most confusing and complex way, with too few ticket gates, too few information boards and too many commuters, the chocolate and raspberry sandwich does cushion the blow a little.
For some, stares and inappropriate touching on the tube are as common as spotting mice scurrying on the tracks or the ticket gates banging closed because your Oyster card needs topping up.
At Golders Green station which still looks much the same as when Yerkes's team built it in 1907 a small brown plaque near the electronic ticket gates notes the date the building opened, and that some original features remain, such as ornate timber handrails in the stairwells.
Then the ticket gates on the concourse are also shut.
