medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A regional airline boasts that it has the best on-time record in the country, pointing out that a smaller percentage of its flights are delayed than is the case for any other carrier. Critics respond that this statistic is misleading, because the airline operates far fewer flights per day than its national competitors do.
Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the critics' response?
- Delays tend to compound across a carrier's network, so the more flights an airline schedules in a day, the higher the proportion of them that ends up delayed.
- Passengers report in survey after survey that on-time performance is the single most important factor they weigh when deciding which particular airline to fly.
- The regional airline charges ticket fares that run, on average, meaningfully higher than the comparable fares offered by its much larger national competitors.
- Several of the national competitors operate their busiest hubs in regions plagued by far harsher and more disruptive winter weather than the regional airline serves.
- The regional airline has expanded its route network and daily departures steadily and quite aggressively over each of the past five consecutive operating years.
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