Sentence examples for modest fares from inspiring English sources

Fewer seats for sale gives them more power to set prices, since they are less desperate to get even modest fares to help fill up planes.

Clusters of old-school hawker stalls served modest fare like duck rice and won ton noodles.

Fuel prices were modest compared with today, and airlines were able to push through modest fare increases.

In a plan released a year ago, the authority proposed regular, modest fare and toll increases every two years.

The Ravitch plan would help the authority close a projected deficit of $3.4 billion through next year by adding bridge tolls, the payroll tax and a modest fare increase.

Mixing in a small payroll tax with tolls and a modest fare increase, it had support from business and transportation advocates.

The Ravitch panel's plan calls for a more modest fare and toll revenue increase of 8percentt — and no service cuts.

Transit riders would pay through a more modest fare increase than one that is set to go into effect later this spring; drivers would pay through tolls; and employers would contribute through the payroll tax.

The underlying cause of the problem, the study says, is the failure of the State Legislature and several governors to provide adequate operating aid each year, and the state's failure to allow modest fare increases over the last 11 years.

But at the risk of seeming unpatriotic about something whose Stateside success we're all supposed to be cheering to the echo, it's actually pretty modest fare, with nothing like the style and invention of the Toy Story films.

NEW YORK'S straphangers breathed a collective sigh of relief last month when Gov. David Paterson and the Legislature offered up $1.8 billion to allow the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to impose only modest fare increases and make no deep cuts in subway, bus and commuter-rail service.