Sentence examples for internet fares from inspiring English sources
Recent easyJet Internet fares for travel in mid-September started at about $260 with tax.
The Service Commitment did not cover Internet fares, said Michael Wascom, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association, the industry's major trade organization, because Internet fares are "a different product" from the tickets sold by human reservations agents.
The order concluded that the existence of Internet fares was not discriminatory because "access to the Internet is now available to virtually anyone".
For example, Delta recently announced that it would make all its discount Internet fares available to retail travel agencies on its Web site.
And the government order covers only the airlines' Internet fares; it does not cover the fares offered by Web-based companies that buy airline tickets in bulk and then resell them.
The department's order said that requiring reservation agents to quote Internet fares to all callers, as Mr. Pevsner also requested, would raise airline costs and might deter airlines from offering the lower fares.
2008's Headcases – perhaps because it had the feel of one of those undead-looking Taiwanese news reports that were briefly popular on the internet – fared even worse.
In coming years, the growth of Internet fare shopping, and the expansion of low-cost airlines will most likely help moderate price increases.
Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, said in a statement on Saturday, "The tying of cable TV subscription to access to Internet fare freely available to other consumers is a very serious concern".
"Not mandating that the Internet fare be disclosed at the time of inquiry is, to me, a grievous shortcoming," he said by telephone from his home in Kingston, N.Y.
But the order also put airlines on notice that they could not deceive consumers and could face sanctions if they failed to alert callers to the possibility of a lower Internet fare.
