Sentences with phrase «[top of the ticket»

StubHub faced backlash from fans over the inflated price of tickets for the Tragically Hip's farewell tour.

«As companies grow larger, there are fewer and fewer funds that can write those kinds of tickets.»

For companies shuttling five or six executives, the cost of tickets can easily match or exceed the cost of a direct charter on a private jet, said Crabbe.

No - frills air travel has grown worldwide, as passengers seek out the lowest fare in exchange for perks like food, free checked baggage and seat assignments, which used to all come with the cost of a ticket.

Fuel surcharges, which can be applied to some international tickets, could drive up the cost of a ticket, too.

Considering a ride to the airport can cost upwards of $ 100, depending on traffic, the cost of the ticket was already beginning to feel worthwhile.

«Even considering the $ 20 fee [per ticket], it adds up when you're dealing with a lot of tickets.»

As part of United's crisis management, the airline said late Wednesday that all passengers on Sunday's United Express Flight 3411 are getting reimbursement equal to the cost of their tickets, which can be taken in cash, travel credits, or miles.

Its website notes the charge can vary depending on the type of ticket booked and the fare of the replacement ticket.

Of the six Canadian teams in the National Hockey League, only the Ottawa Senators reported that they did not sell 100 per cent of their tickets for the 2009 - 10 season — and the Senators were at 98.8 per cent.

Prosecutors say Napout collected millions of dollars in bribes as well as gifts — such as $ 10,175.88 worth of tickets to a Paul McCartney concert in Buenos Aires.

In the wake of this ticketing crisis, a black market for Olympic seats sprang up, to which Chinese law enforcement reportedly turned a blind eye.

«Ready Player One» also is opening this weekend in most international markets, which have become an equally important source of ticket sales for U.S. pictures.

According to A.J. Daulerio, who reported on the event for Deadspin, Beijing's organizers released to the public only about 40 % of the tickets.

It's just the quantity of tickets we have to sell is phenomenal, and we just have to pull out all the stops to sell them.»

For the remainder of the Games, a group including London's organizers, the IOC and sports federations will meet each evening to determine which blocks of tickets for the next day's events can go back on sale.

Cosby sold $ 10.8 million worth of tickets to over 100 shows, or approximately 2,200 tickets per venue, at an approximate cost of $ 57 each.

Remember, it's one way, not the total price of your ticket.

Giegel envisions a boarding process with features like seats that illuminate with a traveler's name and face recognition technology instead of tickets.

New York City's finance department is reportedly envisioning an «aesthetically pleasing» mobile interface by which drivers could either take a picture of their tickets or scan barcodes to make one - click payments, MarketWatch reports.

And then to make matters worse, as you alluded to, Hotwire actually sold some of the tickets to the hijackers.

Movie booking site Fandango told Variety that the film has become the biggest pre-seller in the history of the ticketing company, besting the inaugural installment of The Hunger Games.

«You would make some direct operational savings by removing the complexity of the ticketing system, where you have cash payments that slow buses down,» Peter White, Professor of Public Transport Systems at the University of Westminster, told CNBC.com.

As the Department of Transportation (DOT) says, «Almost any planeload of airline passengers includes some people with urgent travel needs and others who may be more concerned about the cost of their tickets than about getting to their destination on time.

The NDP this month proposed an Air Passengers» Bill of Rights, which would require airlines to pay customers $ 100 for each hour trapped on the tarmac up to the cost of the ticket.

You could be stuck buying a new round of tickets for everyone traveling in your group if the airline doesn't help.

If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways — for example, by limiting the number of tickets sold on any one day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.

«Most people don't know that 25 percent of their ticket goes to various taxes,» she said in an interview with «Closing Bell.»

The risk of splitting prizes leads to a conundrum: Ever bigger jackpots, which should lead to a better expected value of a ticket, could have the unintended consequence of bringing in too many new players, increasing the odds of a split jackpot and damaging the value of a ticket.

If we take the lump sum, then, we end up seeing that the expected value of a ticket drops further below zero, to - $ 0.71, suggesting that a ticket for the lump sum is also a bad deal.

Take each prize, subtract the price of our ticket, multiply the net return by the probability of winning, and add all those values to get our expected value.

Here's another thing Aron likely understands about «frequent moviegoers» (which includes all age groups, not just young people): They account for 49 percent of all tickets sold in the U.S. and Canada but only 10 percent of the overall moviegoing population.

The average total price of tickets to the movies for a family of four costs $ 33.72.

Using the binomial distribution, we can find the probability of splitting the jackpot based on the number of tickets sold:

Take each prize, subtract the price of our ticket, multiply the net return by the probability of winning, and add all those values up to get our expected value:

It should be clear that this would be devastating to the expected value of a ticket.

One thing we can calculate fairly easily is the probability of multiple winners based on the number of tickets sold.

(When he finally did board the plane to Vegas, his bosses gave him and his wife a pair of tickets to catch a show as a further thank you.)

In 1979, David Koch ran as the vice-presidential candidate on the 1980 Libertarian ticket (with Ed Clark at the top of the ticket).

One option to make sure folks don't sip too much is to issue drink tickets, says Nina B. Ries, principal of Ries Law Group in Santa Monica Calif., «A good cap on the number of tickets might be one drink ticket per hour of the party.»

Wallsten compares broadband to airlines, which not only charge passengers differently based on the class of ticket they're buying, but also when they make their purchase.

But Woudstra says the airline canceled the return trip portion of his ticket because it believed he missed the first flight, according to Road Warrior Voices and an interview with television station WZZM.

Last December the U.S. Department of Transportation dropped proposals that would have required airlines to disclose checked and carry - on bag fees at the start of a ticket purchase rather than later on.

The opposite of empathy there is, «I'm running a metrics - driven organization where I'm going to try and minimize my time to close across all of my tickets and you're ticket 117 and we're not required to help you in this circumstance, so you're on your own.»

Live Nation Entertainment, which merged with Ticketmaster in 2010, is in a great position to capitalize on this trend as it owns or controls more than 100 of the most popular music venues in the country and gets a cut of ticketing fees to boot.

Afterwards, they overlaid those volume numbers against the number of tickets sold for this season's games, based on transactions made up until Sept. 12, 2012.

The exhibition, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, opened in 2013 and had already sold a record number of tickets even before the artist's death.

Some airlines require that if you are canceling, you have to cancel by phone, and others that you can't be a no - show, or you will lose the value of the ticket.»

Holes in the plot aside — and there were lots of them — the movie was fully embraced by audiences, who bought $ 306 million worth of tickets, or $ 456 million today.

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.