A $1.50 fare would increase it to more than 70 percent next year.

Fares for special bus services would increase an average of 13 percent.

On November 2, 2008, local fares increased to $1.25 from $1.

In January 2009, the fare increased from $1.50 to $1.75.

For peak travel the fare would increase to $438 round trip, from $398.

Officials have estimated that the higher fares will increase United's revenues by $10 million to $12 billion a month.

Rather, he said, fares will probably increase on selected popular routes.

Outside Britain, fares will increase by $4 per flight sector.

Yet, due to the poor state of the economy at the time, fares increased and there was a brief strike in 1976.

By contrast, comparable fares increased 16 percent in all of 1997 compared with 1996.