Pundit: The only airline providing service for our town announces that because the service is unprofitable, it will discontinue this service next year. Town officials have urged the community to use the airline’s service more frequently so that the airline will change its decision. There is no reason to comply with their recommendation, however, for just last week these same officials drove to an out-of-town conference instead of flying.
The Pundit’s reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it presumes, without providing justification, that
(A)
Increasing the number of tickets sold without increasing ticket prices will be sufficient to make continued air service economically feasible. - WRONG. Irrelevant as it doesn't impact the conclusion.
(B) Suspending service and losing money by continuing service are the airline’s
only options. - WRONG. Irrelevant as it doesn't impact the conclusion.
(C) The town officials paid for their trip with
taxpayers’ money rather than their own money. - WRONG. Irrelevant as it doesn't impact the conclusion.
(D) Ground transportation is usually no less
expensive than airplane transportation. - WRONG. Irrelevant as it doesn't impact the conclusion.
(E) If the town officials did not follow their own advice, then that advice is not worth following. - CORRECT. Exactly what we are looking for. Pundit makes clear that officials themselves didn't follow their own advice in the last sentence of the passage.
Answer E.
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