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But leading bus operator Stagecoach said the proposal would push fares up.
Omg #uber pushes fares up by 300% taking advantage of #tubestrike...Good luck people as its chaos out there.
The added security measures have probably pushed fares up throughout the country, maybe as much as 40percentt in some places.
On one hand, higher fuel and labor-settlement costs are pushing fares up, while plummeting demand the last two months has prompted selective fare discounts by airlines that are looking for ways to fill seats, he said.
Eurotunnel believes its premium service will become increasingly attractive as ferry companies are forced to push up fares to meet the cost of new regulations on fuel.
Eurotunnel has been banned from running ferries out of Dover after the Competition Commission said its dominance of the cross-Channel market would allow it to push up fares.
London gets its budget cut further, by £31m, which Transport for London will have to find in its day-to-day spending – possibly forcing the next mayor to push up fares.
At easyJet, the chief executive, Carolyn McCall, says the common aviation area created by the EU has kept airlines' costs low and and any new, more restrictive arrangements would push up fares.
Making flights scarcer has the additional benefit — unless you are a customer — of helping to push up fares, "which they've done anyway," said David N. Edwards Jr., airport director at Asheville.
Louise Ellman, the committee's chairwoman, said: "We know that over 70% of local authorities have moved rapidly to reduce funding for supported bus services, forcing most operators to withdraw services or push up fares – or both – as the English bus industry adjusts to the greatest financial challenge it has faced for a generation".
