Choosing bigger planes may give customers more leg room, but it will also impose the opportunity cost of higher gas costs for the company.
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joyekwon
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nando
The people in short flight who need to have a considerable price would take more pressure fromthe more cost on bigger size of plane lead.
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ltseng27
Larger aircrafts require higher maintenance, resulting in higher costs.
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alanzhu
More leg room=space that could be used for another customer. It depends on the flight. Westjet mainly does short flights,
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Caitlin Lim
Higher cost to the company for a price that customers may not be willing to pay. Profit and cost will not equal and company will deficit.
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valendinadebonis
It costs more and less people would be able to fit in the plane.
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zhujunye
Bigger planes need to spend more fuels, which would increase the total variable cost.
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Yating Zhang
Maintenance on bigger planes would be more costly.
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Changchun Dai
Technology problem , labour, more responsibility
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Karina Chadijah
It’s not efficient because the cost is higher (maintenance, fuel, etc)
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Harman Sahota
Bigger planes are ideal for long routes, but for small routes it would be cheaper for the airlines to run smaller planes.
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joyekwon
Choosing bigger planes may give customers more leg room, but it will also impose the opportunity cost of higher gas costs for the company.
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zeweison
Depending on the distance of the flight, the optimal size of the plane varies. Due to factors such as crew costs and fuel costs.
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rhiannonwademan
Not only are larger planes more expensive to run, but in some cases, they are inefficient. Short flights do not need large planes.
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Caitlin Lim
Higher cost to the company for a price that customers may not be willing to pay. Profit and cost will not equal and company will deficit.
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namdo
Much more cost from other sources: labour, operation, so on
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Jennie Yan
The additional costs for a bigger plane, such as increased fuel costs, more expensive planes
Alex Wou, Yu Lin Huang
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michellesieklucki
Bigger planes would be more expensive, however, if flying long distances, it may make sense to have the option available. This is why we have first class in planes.
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joyekwon
Choosing bigger planes may give customers more leg room, but it will also impose the opportunity cost of higher gas costs for the company.
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Annabelle Chen
bigger planes=more $ to operate and customers won’t prefer a bigger space if they have to pay extra, they would upgrade to a higher class
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annabellechen
@ Maria Pous
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Sarah JIANG
Bigger plane will lead to increase of maintenance cost,environment costs, crew costs
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valendinadebonis
It costs more and less people would be able to fit in the plane. Jill Hughes, Kerry Stanley
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Gabriel Cheung
Maintaining bigger planes costs more than smaller planes and more leg room isn’t the biggest concern for customers.
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Jonathan Gugger
Most people look for the cheapest option when searching for a flight. Everybody wants more leg room, but most won’t spend the extra buck.
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Yiyin Zhang
The cost of biggest planes may be high because of more needed gass and not-enough passengers.
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hanxuanwang
There may not be enough customers
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Jiacheng Shen
The company needs to invest more capital on training new stuff with new technology therefore,overall expenditure increase
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Aarun Sandhu
Not as many pilots are trained to fly such large planes, so they may be short on possible staff
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Andrew Grange
As previously mentioned the article, the airline may not have as many pilots trained on the larger aircrafts.
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Xu Yueting
-more costs to maintain
-empty seats
-fuel efficiency
-air traffic
-cost more to buy
alanzhu 7:37 am on September 19, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
big planes not efficient. Big planes would waste more gas and they risk not being full