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After a year's postponement due to Governor Hogan reallocating funds, the MTA has increased some ticket prices by 10 cents.

Campaign group Railfuture accused the UK Government of ‘stoking the fire of the cost of living crisis’.

Despite budget busting fare increases, and meltdowns, we've seen those frofling flight attendants and even a pilot over the last week. doug zader is working on this story. what were they rating they seemed to be doing so well on? >> reporter: the first thing is time performance, this is the annual report card for 2011. the news, believe it or not, is good for the 15 largest airlines. better last year than the year before, but we're playing on the margins here. first this study is based on data from the department of transportation and gives the airlines 15 minutes of leeway in their schedule b...

Customers, contrary to what you might think. a new report shows airlines are slowly recovering from the industry's meltdown about five years ago or so. many of them performed better in areas like on-time arrivals in 2011 than they did the priest year. patti ann brown has more on that. >> reporter: the report released today says airlines have improved in four key areas; lost bags, delayed flights, poor onboard service and getting bumped from full planes. but that improvement is slight. for example, airlines get you there on time with your bags 80% of the time, that's up from 79% and, of course,...

Of wait around until about easter when the airlines start to drop a few air fare sales for the summer but easter is late this year on april 24th. so we are look at that and then we are looking at a lot of increases, fare increases, and we are also expecting fuel surcharges. so if you see a fare that seems reasonable it is time to go ahead and grab that because otherwise it is just going fly away. >> shannon: any examples about what kind of numbers we are talking about and locations? >> ing. >> looking at transcontinental trips in the u.s. close to $500 now for peak summer travel season, fares ...