Spokesmen at Eastern declined to say yesterday how much of the airline's $200 million in outstanding tickets had been purchased on credit cards.
Four others had their licenses suspended for failing to answer outstanding tickets.
The car, which had eight outstanding tickets, got a parking boot, a device that prevents a car from being moved.
He informed a habitual parking violator that, no, there would not be a payment plan for outstanding tickets.
New York is owed $21.3 million on more than 2,000 outstanding tickets issued to vehicles registered to diplomats between 1997 and 2000.
The relief committee offered to pay the outstanding tickets and to accept a delegation from the 13 schools to discuss the matter further.
Four were released in short order after recruiters paid $3,388 in fines and late fees for outstanding tickets.
Before the Council action, two outstanding tickets, of any amount, were grounds for being towed.
An almost identical plan in Washington has resulted in the payment of 97 percent of outstanding tickets, he said.
There were no outstanding tickets; it had not been towed.