Sentence examples for fares jump from inspiring English sources

I've seen fares jump $50 or more in just minutes or had the seat I was booking suddenly become unavailable.

Airline fares jumped 4.6percentt in March, pushed up by the cost of fuel, airlines say.

Haven't I seen this movie before? A. It was playing back in 1975 when subway fares jumped to 50 cents from 35 cents, during New York's most famous fiscal crisis, when the city neared bankruptcy.

That translates into higher prices, he said, citing recent fare jumps between Baltimore and San Diego.

To the Editor: Regarding "Glitches in Booking First Class Online," (Practical Traveler, April 10); It is not only first-class bookers who encounter "fare jumping".

Passengers pay £4,260 a year for season tickets on the 31-minute journey – and from next week the fare jumps another 6% to £4,516 (the price includes onward travel on the tube network).

At Criminal Court downtown on Sunday, crowds of reporters kept watch throughout the day for Mr. Strauss-Kahn's arraignment, sitting through dozens of more prosaic cases involving offenses like subway fare jumping, marijuana possession and, in one instance, charges of possession of a stun gun.

Fares will jump another 7.5% in 2011 and again in 2013, but the increase will still be less than threatened.