When I mentioned “fundamentally the same,” I had in mind the fact that air, rail, and bus fares in China are all distance-based and regulated by the government. Chinese air carriers only appear to operate in a deregulated U.S.-like environment because they are allowed to discount, on a percentage-off basis, from government-published tariffs. IIRC, full fares on domestic Chinese routes are identical across all carriers competing on those routes.

But vering back to topic, stand-by is really an American institution that control-infatuated China will not allow for its public.