Transit officials have promised to listen to the public before officially imposing fare increases next month.
But one executive said that while the airlines have not been able to impose fare increases across the board this year, they have been able to capitalize on the return of business travelers.
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.
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.
The mayor's transport adviser, Kulveer Ranger, ruled out imposing big fare increases last week and said the mayor would go directly to the Department for Transport for the cash.
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.
"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.
Last week the London mayor, Boris Johnson, imposed above-inflation fare increases, blaming the move on an £84m shortfall left by his predecessor, Ken Livingstone.
