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UAL Corp.'s United also raised U.S.leisure fares by $2 to
$4 each way to counter increases in fuel costs, spokeswoman Jean
Medina said today.
Delta Air Lines Inc.
matched the move,
spokeswoman Gina Laughlin said.
Spokesmen at AMR Corp.'s American
Airlines, Continental Airlines Inc.
and Northwest Airlines Corp.
said their companies were studying the increase.
U.S.
carriers are trying to boost revenue and return to
profitability after posting about $40 billion in losses in the
past five years, partly because fares declined as discounters
took away customers.
Carriers were also hurt by jet-fuel prices
that jumped 79 percent in the past two years.
United spent three
years in bankruptcy reducing costs before emerging last month.
``United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not
want to go back from where they came,'' said Terry Trippler, who
monitors fares for the Cheapseats.com Web site.
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