This is intended to replace flying + hotel, which does not take less time or money.
Let's say you're in San Francisco and want to be in Santa Monica the whole of the next day. Your options are:
1. Wake up at 3:30am, leave the house at 4, arrive SFO by 5, flight at 6:30, at LAX at 8, get to Santa Monica at 9. You are now completely shattered for the day.
2. Fly at a reasonable hour he night before, and rent a hotel in Santa Monica. You have now spent more money than Cabin.
3. Go to sleep on a bus at a reasonable hour in San Francisco; wake up at a reasonable hour in Santa Monica. You've used less of your waking-time to travel, and have spent less money than getting a hotel.
Convenience, and comfort factor. If I can take a bus, and sleep 10-12h uninterrupted, it's worth the premium.
The alternative is broken travel, lines, TSA harassment, and arriving at your destination a hollow shell of your former self having had the live and soul sucked out of you by incompetence, harmful lighting design and oppressive neon tubes and the brown noise of an aircraft engine sapping your very will to exist.
Let's say you're in San Francisco and want to be in Santa Monica the whole of the next day. Your options are:
1. Wake up at 3:30am, leave the house at 4, arrive SFO by 5, flight at 6:30, at LAX at 8, get to Santa Monica at 9. You are now completely shattered for the day.
2. Fly at a reasonable hour he night before, and rent a hotel in Santa Monica. You have now spent more money than Cabin.
3. Go to sleep on a bus at a reasonable hour in San Francisco; wake up at a reasonable hour in Santa Monica. You've used less of your waking-time to travel, and have spent less money than getting a hotel.