Sentence examples for passenger fare from inspiring English sources

And even though tourists can't take cars to Iona, the passenger fare falls from £5.20 to £3.30.

The minister did not announce additional unpopular passenger fare hikes, as the fares were hiked last month, but he did announce increases to a score of other charges, which mean the overall price many passengers pay will increase.

Raising passenger fares is politically impossible.

Revenue from passenger fares was $2.7 billion.

Transit costs are paid from passenger fares and, in most developed countries, public subsidies.

The minister's sin: raising passenger fares on India's vast railways for the first time in nine years.

In recent years, income from these agreements has equaled or exceeded the income from regular passenger fares.

It has managed a stealthy 14% rise in passenger fares over the past three years, against a mere 2% rise in freight charges.The need for stealth is obvious.

The system became less sustainable: Passenger fares paid for 37 percent of the cost of service in 1992 but less than 33 percent in 2007.

Dinesh Trivedi, the now ex-railways minister, proposed an increase in passenger fares last week citing safety and modernization of the railways as primary concerns.

AMR, which owned American Airlines, earned $175 million in the third quarter, up from $15 million in the same period in 2006, a performance in part aided by increased passenger fares.