Currently, the bonus does not kick in until more than the monetary equivalent of four fares is placed on a pay-per-ride card.
It will then make its own way to the edge of outer space, to the acclamation of six fare-paying passengers.At $200,000 a seat, that should be good business.
That said, New Yorkers could be forgiven if they have lost some confidence in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, facing as they do the prospect of three fare increases in a mere three-year stretch.
As for the other two new wide releases of the week, "The Edge of Seventeen" fared the best with $4.8 million, failing analyst expectations of at least $10 million.
Starting early next year, the company announced, customers will have a choice of three "fare bundle options," one of which will not include JetBlue's signature "first bag free" promise.
Virtually all the skyrocketing fares fall into one of three categories: fares on thinly traveled routes; fares to "fortress hub" airports dominated by one carrier, and unrestricted fares, which few people pay.
Single travelers have long gotten the short end of the travel-package stick, sometimes paying almost the price of two adult fares for a private room.
According to an analysis of a decade of taxi meter and odometer readings, obtained recently from New York City by a transportation consultant, the availability of cabs over the last seven years has fallen sharply, by 13percentt -- even with an expansion of taxi medallions, two fare increases and the introduction of subway and bus fare discounts.
The proposal was one of two possible fare-increase formulas offered by the transit agency.
The Brits of "Wolf Hall: Parts One & Two" fared less well, though David Hare's "Skylight" took home Best Revival of a Play.
