The first cabdriver tells his prospective fare that, lacking GPS and a map, he does not know how to get to Union Street and Third Avenue in Brooklyn, an intersection of two relatively major streets about 1.5 miles, and two turns, from the base of the Brooklyn Bridge.
One of United's biggest headaches, in fact, comes from a prospective low-fare competitor.
But how would classic works of the past have fared if their prospective readers had had only a brief pitch to judge them on?
However, the delays and uncertainty caused by the fares dispute had discouraged prospective tenants, leaving large numbers of properties vacant and causing further building work to slow considerably.
Consequently, though it still served prospective collegians the time-honoured academic fare, it went to great lengths to accommodate the generality of young America with courses in areas such as automobile driving, cookery, carpentry, and writing.
But officials noted that Mr. DuBow's plan could lead to a revenue loss for the authority if prospective riders were given cards to cover fares that they might otherwise have paid themselves.
He said he was not concerned with a prospective team's market size, noting that Tim Duncan fared quite well in San Antonio.
To have any fare matched, the company says, a prospective traveler should present an advertisement or other price quote, which may be from a Web site, showing the lower price.
While the travel industry has moved towards demand-based pricing, where the fare rises along with the number of prospective buyers, Scotland's ferries are sailing in the opposite direction.
What the prospective passenger needs to know from the outside is that the fare is metered — in other words, make sure the meter is on once you climb in, unless you're going to Kennedy International Airport, in which case it would be a flat fare.
