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swimmingfrog

3.(B)     It might seem that an airline could increase profits by reducing airfares on all its flights in order to encourage discretionary travel and thus fill planes. Offers of across-the-board discount fares have, indeed, resulted in the sale of large numbers of reduced-price tickets. Nevertheless such offers have, in the past, actually cut the airline’s profits.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy described above?

(A) Fewer than 10 percent of all air travelers make no attempt to seek out discount fares.

(B) Fares for trips between a large city and a small city are higher than those for trips between two large cities even when the distances involved are the same.

(C) Across-the-board discounts in fares tend to decrease revenues on flights that are normally filled, but they fail to attract passengers to unpopular flights.

(D) Only a small number of people who have never before traveled by air are persuaded to do so on the basis of across-the-board discount fares.（C）

(E) It is difficult to devise an advertising campaign that makes the public aware of across-the-board discount fares while fully explaining the restrictions applied to those discount fares.

怎么会是选C 呢？discounts 想要降低满载飞机的利润，但没能吸引顾客坐unpopular flights. 这么两边都不讨好的措施，怎么能解释“虽然打折机票，还是盈利的矛盾啊”

B 怎么不对？

lawyer_1

原文矛盾是： reducing airfares 能通过增加顾客来增加利润，但across-the-board 虽增加顾客，却没增加利润

swimmingfrog

nod nod.

好像再看,一下子就明白了.怎么当初看得时候就那么糊涂呢.看来还是要多看才行啊!

Bensontuo

swimmingfrog 发表于 2004-12-7 07:29
3.(B)     It might seem that an airline could increase profits by reducing airfa ...

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Discrepancy

Core of the argument:

If airline increase profits ---> by reducing airfares on all its flights  ---> encourage discretionary travel ---> fill the planes.

Offers of cross the board discount ---> sales of large numbers of reduced price tickets --- > cut the airline profits.

* First thing first ! Go straight to the answers !

A. How could you determine how many numbers of travelers are there really do attempt to seek out discount fares ? and how many tickets required to ensure company making profit ? you know nothing. Wrong

B. How can you determine the demographics of the customers and how that demographics influence the cores of the argument.
Who to say it has to be that the numbers of group of the customer, travels between a larger city and a small city,  interested in discount ticket is way lesser than the counterpart ? too many assumptions to be made. wrong

C. 1. Even the planes be filled, across the board discounts tend to decrease revenue. 2. some of the planes must be not filled due. to its unpopularities. - Correct answer.

D. It does not mean those small number of people are not large in quantity enough to purchase the flight ticket for filling the planes.

E. It does not mean people would not come to them, ask them all the infos, and buy tons of tickets from them.