Transit officials have promised to listen to the public before officially imposing fare increases next month.
Passengers at Bradley and other airports face other burdens: The airlines are now imposing fare increases, fuel surcharges and luggage fees, and they're substituting smaller aircraft for larger ones.
Why have airlines been unable to impose lasting fare increases since Sept. 11? A. Demand is still very tenuous and highly price-sensitive.
Another attempt by airlines to impose small fare increases to offset high fuel costs collapsed yesterday after AMR's American Airlines retreated from a $10 price increase on round-trip fares that it announced on Thursday.
TfL faces a funding squeeze after losing its £700m central government grant, lower-than-expected passenger numbers, and the decision of the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to impose a fare freeze during his first four-year term.
"I don't think it's wise to impose a fare hike this soon on commuters right after we did the last hike," Gov. David A. Paterson said during a news conference in Hudson, N.Y.
Over the weekend, even several low-cost carriers such as ATA and Midwest had tried to impose the fare increases, indicating just how desperate the industry has become over fuel costs at a time when fierce competition is keeping domestic fares low.
Green would like to impose a fares freeze if he could get a deal with the SRA, the government's official industry arm.
And the low-costs have imposed tremendous fare discipline".
By imposing a fare scale based on actual weight, rather than just depending on a pilot's observations about overall payload, Samoa got a lot of worldwide publicity.
